Today, our friend Patrick McDonald continued our teaching in Mark as we looked at 8:1-21. We see the disciples who having been with Jesus, having heard firsthand what He said and seeing firsthand what He did, still don't get it. We see the Pharisees approach Jesus with hard hearts trying to prove Jesus was wrong. What we learn from Jesus is that we need to be alert and pay attention to our hearts. We live in a culture and a time where it's so easy to make everything about us and how we want things to be - our thoughts, our opinions, our preferences. Instead, Jesus is asking us to make our lives about Him. He invites us to spend time with Him and to allow our hearts to be aligned to His.
We invite you to spend time with the Father and seek his revelation on one question:
Father, where is my heart being hardened?
As you hear His response, we encourage you to write down what you hear and invite you to both pray and act on what you heard.