Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily Gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Thursday, January 23rd, and we will be reading Mark 3, 7-12.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Mark 3, 7-12.
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed, also from Judea and Jerusalem, and Uttimia, and from beyond the Jordan, and from about Tyre and Sidon.
A great multitude, hearing all that he did, came to him, and he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him, for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him.
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, You are the Son of God! And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
Have you noticed Jesus often tells people to keep his miracles a secret?
Almost like he wants to be a mystery man.
I think he tells people this because he doesn’t want to be seen as just a miracle worker.
He wants to see more than the miracles.
He wants us to see God and how good life is with his Father.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dear God, help us to see you not as only our Father, but as our healer and protector.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!