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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Food Won't Defile
Then Jesus left the people and went into the house. The
followers asked Jesus about this story. Jesus said, "You
still have trouble understanding? Surely you know that
nothing that enters a person from the outside can make him
wrong. Food does not go into a person's mind. Food goes into
the stomach. Then that food goes out of the body." (When
Jesus said this, he meant that there is no food that is wrong
for people to eat.)
-- Mark 7:17-19 (ERV)
KEY THOUGHT:
Once again, Jesus wants his closest followers to know that the issues
of genuine faith focus on our heart-driven actions and not on the
cosmetic ones. Luke and Mark add the powerful commentary about making
all food clean -- a truth that took some time to sink in among Jesus'
early followers. The declaration is radical, not just because he
declared all food clean, but because he wanted us to look at our hearts
instead of having a perfunctory religious check off list of good deeds
that never demanded anything of our hearts.
TODAY'S PRAYER:
O God, please make my deeds helpful and genuine and my heart pure. I
want to love you, and I want to love others, in deeds and truth as well
as in words and speech. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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