Good Morning!
Today's Bible reading is Mark chapter 4. The verse that seemed to speak more to me today was one on measuring. We measure lots of things in life. Ingredients if you are cooking or baking. Fabric if you are quilting. We even measure ourselves to see what size clothing we need to take. But we do not often think about measuring what we give to other people...
Scripture:
Mark 4:24 "Consider carefully what you hear," he continuted. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you--and even more."
Observation:
Jesus spoke these words when He was giving the parable of the lamp on a stand. He told people that you do not bring a lamp and put it under a bowl or a bed, but rather upon a stand. As with all of Jesus' parables, there was more to the story than the surface things, because Jesus goes on to tell people that with whatever measure they used, the same measure would be used towards them.
Application:
So what things are going to be measured? Things like grace. Forgiveness. Love. All of the ways we know we should be treating our fellow man--whatever we are "measuring out" to them, will come our way as well. Jesus also went on to say further "Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." Mark 4:25
Prayer:
Dear Father--Help me to measure out to my fellow humans unlimited love and grace and forgiveness. May I become more and more like You each day, until "I" disappear and only You can be seen.
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