Listen to what the Lord tells you

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Short Reading - Mark 9:1-13​Longer reading - Mark 9:1-29 
 

Key Verse – Mark 9:7

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I find it easy to get carried away with what is happening in my life and to forget to listen to the Lord speaking to me.

You may not believe it, but Peter, the apostle, had this problem as well. In today’s passage, he was one of three disciples who had a special experience. The Lord took them up into a mountain, and they saw a sight that they would never forget. The Lord described what they saw as seeing ‘the kingdom of God come with power’, v. 1. They saw Jesus visibly changed, His clothes shone brighter than can be described, v. 3, and His face ‘shone as the sun’, Matt 17. 2.

Luke tells us that they had gone up the mountain to pray, Luke 9. 28 and that as Jesus prayed, the changes took place. Peter, James and John had fallen asleep and woke to see the Lord talking to Moses and Elijah. They were discussing the death of Jesus at Jerusalem, Luke 9. 32. The word for death could be translated as ‘departure’ or ‘exodus’. Just imagine what Moses could have said about the ‘Exodus’ or what Elijah could have said about his ‘Departure’, but they were talking about the work that the Lord Jesus would accomplish at Jerusalem.

This was when Peter blurted out in his excitement that he wanted to celebrate the Lord Jesus, Moses and Elijah by building a festival tent for each of them. At this stage, the Father intervenes by speaking from heaven and reminding Peter (and the rest of the group) to focus on the Lord and to do what he says, v. 7.

Remember – listen to His voice and do what he says.

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What is greatest invention known to man?

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What do we all want to achieve in our lives?

That is a pretty searching question, but, if we are honest, we would all like to think that we have made some significant contribution to the world in the time we have spent here.

Even so, in actual fact, few of us make any real impact on society during our lives.  On the other hand, as we look at history there are some names that stand out in their contribution to the world. 

My education was in the sciences and names like Newton, Kelvin and Faraday were legendary in my experience, but so many of them brought contributions to science which, although they developed the working of science, were mostly theoretical. I am thinking of the Kelvin absolute temperature scale, Newton’s laws of motion and Faraday’s discovery of electromagnetic induction.

God still speaks today!

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The fact that you are reading this indicates to me that you have some interest or at least fascination with what the bible teaches.

I like reading biographies or watching films about history or people’s experiences. But I’m particularly interested reading about people who studied the Bible. There is a fascinating passage in the Bible about a man who trusted God from his teenage years. He was always learning and seeking to trust God, and living his life in a way that is pleasing to God.