Read: Leviticus 11:1-12:8; Mark 5:21-43; Psalm 38:1-22; Proverbs 10:8-9
The law is spiritual so it has meaning beyond the natural. In the natural they could only eat animals that had a split hoof completely divided and that chewed the cud. We are to eat the Word of God. We are to rightly divide it and meditate on it.
They could only eat fish that had fins and scales. The fins help the fish to swim straight and the scales cover their body and protect them. We are to stay balanced in our understanding of the Word and always be covered by our church and the blood of Jesus. People get in error when they isolate themselves and get out of a spiritual covering. Other people help us to stay balanced.
God told them not to make themselves unclean by any creature that moved about on the ground because He was the god who brought them out of Egypt. All of the Egyptian gods walked about on all four feet. God called us to walk upright, looking forward and up, not down on the ground. We are to be heavenly minded, not earthly minded.
In Mark, Jesus was speaking to mainly to the Gentiles when a Jewish leader, Jarius came and begged Jesus to come and heal his little 12 year old girl. Jesus started to leave the crowd to follow this man to his house. On the way, he was touched by a desperate woman who had been bleeding for 12 years. Jesus was in a crowd of people, but when she touched him, he felt power leave him. She felt the power enter her body so when Jesus asked who had touched him, she knew it was her. Jesus told her that her faith had made her whole and she could walk in peace because her suffering was over.
Meanwhile, Jarius was told that his daughter was dead. Did he wonder if Jesus had just kept walking, she wouldn’t have died. Jesus knew that time was not an impossible barrier. He told the man not to be afraid, only to believe. When he got to the house, Jesus proclaimed that she was only sleeping and all the crowd laughed at him. Jesus got rid of the crowd and went in with the family. He spoke to the little girl and she woke up. Jesus told them not to tell anyone.
Lord, help us to walk securely in your path. May we be brave and courageous and mature in Your ways.
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