Miracles!

For Thursday, July 7, 2022:

Mark 3:7-8 NLT: “Jesus went out to the lake with his disciples, and a large crowd followed him. They came from all over Galilee, Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, from east of the Jordan River, and even from as far north as Tyre and Sidon. The news about his miracles had spread far and wide, and vast numbers of people came to see him.”

If you worked in a newsroom, you’d say, “Jesus is news! Almost anything he touches could be the lead story on tonight’s news.”

Of course the crowd followed Jesus to witness miracles. Jesus had just restored a man with a deformed hand. He did it on the Sabbath, explaining, “Does the law permit good deeds on the Sabbath, or is it a day for doing evil? Is this a day to save life or to destroy it?” Jesus knew the correct application of the law, and he corrected the Pharisees.

His greatest miracle was the final act of his life, taking the sins of the world to the place of the dead. Believers, those with faith in the Son, suddenly gained a reservation in the hereafter, a guarantee to spend eternity in the Lord’s presence!

Large crowds should still come to hear about the miracles of Jesus. We talk about it every week!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406