DEVOTION ~ ARE YOU WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING?
Theme: Are You Without Understanding? Text: Mark 7:17-19 17 When He had entered a house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him concerning the parable. 18 So He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him, 19 because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, thus purifying all foods?” It is normal to sometimes get confused or lost when someone speaks to us in parables. This was the predicament of the disciples. Having left the crowd and alone with the Lord, they ask Him about the parable. Dear beloved in the Lord, God has purified all foods for consumption. Therefore, we must not accept false notions that by eating a particular food we have defiled ourselves or reduced our spiritual strength. The food is digested and eliminated as faeces. The heart is not in any way affected. However, remember, man must not live by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from...