Week 42: Mark

Mia:  In Mark 13:32-37 Jesus says no one knows when he will come back the second time, only the Father.  He explains it’s like a man that leaves his house and puts his servants in charge.  They each have different tasks to do.  He tells one servant to keep watch for him at the door.  I thought that was a great example of waiting for Jesus to come back.

Ian:  This verse is pretty exciting reading until it gets to the persecutions part.  But then I thought about what makes me more like Jesus.  Abundance?  Meh.  Persecutions?  I wish it weren’t so.

“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life.  Mark 10:29-30.