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Devotional: December 10th

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Mark 8:22-38

At Bethsaida, that town whose unbelief the Lord specially condemned (Matthew 11:21), He performs another miracle for a poor, blind man. The Lord had to put His hands on the man twice to heal him; likewise we sometimes come step by step to the light of God (Psalms 138:8; Philippians 1:6).

After this, the Lord Jesus questions His disciples on the opinions which are going around about Him. Then He asks them a direct and fundamental question, "But whom say ye that I am?" Yes, whatever opinions others may have of the Lord Jesus, I must have a personal appreciation of Him. But this is only the starting point on the path in which He invites me to follow Him: the path of self-denial and of the cross where I died with Him. Some people, when tested, speak with resignation of the cross they have to bear, or of the "Calvary" which they must accept. But this is not what the Lord means here. He asks each believer willingly to take the burden of shame and suffering which the world will not be slow to give him if he is faithful (Galatians 6:14). "For my sake", the Lord Jesus states, for this is the great secret which allows the Christian to accept death to the world and to self (v. 35; Romans 8:36).

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