DAY SEVEN - Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Mark 2:18-22
Today I went for a walk through the beautiful countryside near my home. I heard voices up ahead and went to take a closer look.
Okay, let’s get on with it!
As the story unfolds before me, I see that both John’s and the Pharisees’ disciples are fasting. They enquire of Jesus as to why his disciples aren’t fasting as well. So, I was anxious to hear/find out why, because I didn’t have an answer.
Stay tuned I thought!
Then Jesus, assuming the role of the bridegroom with the disciples representing his guests, shares that while he is here, they will ‘feast’ together and they can ‘fast’ when he is gone from their sight. As Jesus portrays this picture, I felt he was subtly making a significant claim to his disciples that, ‘He is God’. But by the look on their faces, I would say they were most confused!
Me too!! I watch… and wait… and listen!
Jesus then goes on to explain more about his return, using two short parables.
Each parable makes the same point: With the coming of Jesus the forms and traditions of the past are being replaced by something new and better, as made reference to in these parables as ‘new fabric and new wine’.
For a time, the bridegroom has been taken away (in death), but one day after much waiting, he will return.
As an onlooker of the happenings depicted by this passage, Mark 2:18-22, I am reminded of the saying, ‘out with the old, and in with the new’!
As I skipped off through the woods on my way home, my heart was filled with much joy and anticipation!
Marguerite Mitchell
Mark 2:18-22
Today I went for a walk through the beautiful countryside near my home. I heard voices up ahead and went to take a closer look.
Okay, let’s get on with it!
As the story unfolds before me, I see that both John’s and the Pharisees’ disciples are fasting. They enquire of Jesus as to why his disciples aren’t fasting as well. So, I was anxious to hear/find out why, because I didn’t have an answer.
Stay tuned I thought!
Then Jesus, assuming the role of the bridegroom with the disciples representing his guests, shares that while he is here, they will ‘feast’ together and they can ‘fast’ when he is gone from their sight. As Jesus portrays this picture, I felt he was subtly making a significant claim to his disciples that, ‘He is God’. But by the look on their faces, I would say they were most confused!
Me too!! I watch… and wait… and listen!
Jesus then goes on to explain more about his return, using two short parables.
Each parable makes the same point: With the coming of Jesus the forms and traditions of the past are being replaced by something new and better, as made reference to in these parables as ‘new fabric and new wine’.
For a time, the bridegroom has been taken away (in death), but one day after much waiting, he will return.
As an onlooker of the happenings depicted by this passage, Mark 2:18-22, I am reminded of the saying, ‘out with the old, and in with the new’!
As I skipped off through the woods on my way home, my heart was filled with much joy and anticipation!
Marguerite Mitchell
