the Third Week after Easter
Click here to join the effort!
Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Mark 13:1-13
The disciples are impressed by the grandeur and the outward beauty of the temple buildings. But the Lord does not see "as man seeth" (1 Samuel 16:7; Isaiah 11:3). He had earlier entered this temple and had seen the evil which filled it (Mark 11:11). He could also see beyond to future events, not many years after His rejection, which would bring about the ruin of the guilty city. History teaches us that in the year A.D. 70, Jerusalem was the object of a terrible siege and was almost entirely destroyed by the armies of Titus. This terrible judgment greatly tested the faith of those believers, who were so attached to this holy city. But the Lord Jesus had encouraged them in advance with the words we have here. How many children of God, going through persecution, have found great blessing through that experience. When they had to give their testimony, what they had to say was dictated to them by the Holy Spirit. It was thus with Peter when he was summoned before the rulers, the elders and the priests in Acts 4:8 and with Stephen in Acts 7:55. We too, in our measure and according to our needs, can experience this power of the Holy Spirit by letting Him work in us.
