Mon.’s Devo - The Seed

Read: Leviticus 9:7-10:20; Mark 4:26-5:20; Psalm 37:30-40; Proverbs 10:6-7
Aaron preformed the sacrifices for the people exactly how God had instructed them and God answered with glory and fire. The fire consumed the offering and the people shouted for joy and worshipped the Lord. But, Nadab and Abihu took matters into their own hands and offered an offering different from what God had told them to. God answered them by fire but instead of consuming their offering, it consumed them. Their cousins had to carry their bodies out of the camp. Aaron was instructed not to mourn for his sons or he would die also. Only the people could mourn for them. As the high priest, Aaron could not mourn sin.
In Mark, Jesus explained how the kingdom was going to grow. Our job is to scatter the seed everywhere we go. It is the Holy Spirit’s job to produce life in the hearts of the people that received the Word or the seed.
The disciples were with Jesus crossing the sea of Galilee. On one side were the Jewish people and on the other side were the Gentiles. They were leaving the Jewish side and going across to the Gentiles and Satan didn’t want them to come to his territory. He had a man there that housed his principality over that region. So, Satan stirred up the storm to deter them. He underestimated the fact that Jesus was in that boat. Jesus rebuked the wind and caused peace which was a precursor of what he would do when he got on land. Satan’s man met them on the shore. He lived in the tombs and no one could bind him, even with a chain. Jesus bound his spirits and freed him with a word. His legion went into the pigs that were to be used for pagan sacrifice. The man was left sane and totally at peace. When he wanted to follow Jesus, Jesus sent him back to spread the seed to the Decapolis (the ten cities). This is how the kingdom spreads. Jesus planted his seed inside this man and we will see later that when Jesus comes back to this area, the people who wanted him to leave will be ready to receive him and his message because of the seed this delivered man will scatter.
Lord, may we be scatterers of the seed of the Word of God and your love.