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One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark...
One Year Bible Podcast: Join Hunter and Heather Barnes on 'The Daily Radio Bible' for a daily 20-minute spiritual journey. Engage with scripture readings, heartfelt devotionals, and collective prayers that draw you into the heart of God's love. Embark on this year-long voyage through the Bible, and let each day's passage uplift and inspire you.
TODAY'S EPISODE:
Welcome, dear friends, to the Daily Radio Bible. Today, we're embarking on day 58 of our transformative journey through the scriptures. Together, we'll immerse ourselves in the rich narratives found in Numbers chapters 21 through 23 and Mark chapters 6 and 7. As always, our mission is not just to read, but to be changed by the Living Word—Jesus Christ. We will explore themes of trust, obedience, and the miraculous as the Israelites confront hostile territories, and as Jesus performs wondrous acts of healing and teaching. May our hearts be open to the profound truths and the healing that comes from His wings. Join us as we dive into this sacred text, engage in soothing prayer, and discover the enduring message that you are deeply loved. Tune in and let's walk this journey together.
TODAY'S DEVOTION:
The sick and the needy were reaching out for the tassels of Jesus' tallit. The tallit is a traditional prayer garment worn by devout Jews, as commanded by Moses in the book of Deuteronomy and Numbers. The tallit was a poncho-like garment that had fringe along the border with knotted tassels at four corners. Devout Jews were to wear it at all times. In fact, they still wear it today. It's there to help remind them at all times to obey God's commandments. It was also to serve as a reminder to them that they belong to God, that God had delivered them out of Egypt, and that they were his people. It was a constant and daily reminder.
In Hebrew, the word for corner, where these fringes are, is "kanaf," which can also be translated as "wings." This interpretation of certain messianic passages was used during that time. From Malachi 4:2: But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings, in his kanaf, in his corners. They took this to mean that when the Messiah came, they would simply need to touch the corners of his tallit, and they would be healed. And that's exactly what we see people doing when Jesus comes through their town. They were reaching out to touch his tallit, the four corners, the wings of his prayer shawl. And when they do, we're told that they were healed. It's so beautiful.
This is the second time we have Mark showing people reaching out for the fringe of Jesus' garment. These were everyday people, hurting desperate people who are looking to Jesus as the long-expected Messiah and receiving healing in his wings.
There is healing in his wings for us too. But that healing doesn't always come when we want it to come. If you've walked with the Lord for any length of time, you soon realize this. Even if we've received healing in miraculous ways, it doesn't always come when we want it to come. Sometimes God has something else in mind. Sometimes he lets these light and momentary afflictions, as Paul calls them, work something out of eternal importance in our life. He's shaping us through the suffering and through the waiting. He's allowing us to participate in a cruciform way of living. And we should not let this momentary suffering and the waiting dissuade us from the truth that there is healing in his wings. That healing is ongoing.
There will come a time at the resurrection when our bodies will be healed completely, and then we will forever be living in the shadow of his wings. There'll be no cancer, sickness, Alzheimer’s. It'll all be gone. But right here, right now, ours is to do what these people did, to reach out, to lay hold of the promise that that tallit represents, to lay hold of the healing that is offered for our souls. There's a whole lot more healing that needs to go on. And some of it can happen right now, and some of it will have to wait, but all of it is going to happen. We can count on that.
So today, even as you hear these words, reach out. Something eternal is being worked out, and we together are reaching out. Not begging or pleading to an indifferent God, but we are reaching out to the one who has come to us. The one who brings healing to me and to the whole world.
And the prayer of my own soul today is that I will see the one who comes, the one who's with me, and lay hold of the one who has laid hold of me. That's the prayer that I have for my own soul. That's the prayer that I have for my family, for my wife, and my daughters, and my son. And that's the prayer that I have for you. May it be so.
TODAY'S PRAYERS:
Lord God Almighty and everlasting father you have brought us in safety to this new day preserve us with your Mighty power that we might not fall into sin or be overcome by adversity. And in all we do, direct us to the fulfilling of your purpose through Jesus Christ Our Lord amen.
Oh God you have made of one blood all the peoples of the earth and sent your blessed son to preach peace to those who are far and those who are near. Grant that people everywhere may seek after you, and find you. Bring the nations into your fold, pour out your Spirit on all flesh, and hasten the coming of your kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
And now Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, Joy. Oh Lord grant that I might not seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in the giving that we receive, in the pardoning that we are pardoned, it is in the dying that we are born unto eternal life. Amen
And now as our Lord has taught us we are bold to pray...
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not unto temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Loving God, we give you thanks for restoring us in your image. And nourishing us with spiritual food, now send us forth as forgiven people, healed and renewed, that we may proclaim your love to the world, and continue in the risen life of Christ. Amen.
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