One Successful Day
Last Sunday and today Mark gives us 14 verses that describe one day in Jesus’ public ministry. It is one eventful and successful day. Last Sunday, we learned that the day began with Jesus going to a synagogue with his disciples. There, he cast out an unclean spirit and healed the person possessed by it. He taught with authority and people were “amazed.” As a result, “his fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.”
Jesus leaves the synagogue, and today’s Gospel recounts the remainder of his eventful and successful day.
But Jesus did not come to be popular. He came to proclaim God’s salvation by his preaching and his healing. Thus he said “For this purpose have I come.”
Neither was his mission limited to one town. He came for all people. So he said, “Let us go on…”
And we know Jesus did not have similar success by human standards every day. He would meet resistance, objections, false accusations, misunderstanding, and even denial by his friends.
Jesus lived his life for the single purpose of fulfilling God’s plan of salvation for all people. Nothing could stop him. Thus, he began his day in prayer.
He gave his life to fulfill God’s plan.
The moment of fulfillment of God’s plan is not Jesus’ success or popularity. That moment is the Cross – the moment of ultimate success of God’s love.
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