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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Mark 11:15-33
The Lord purifies the temple which He had inspected the previous day. The zeal of the perfect Servant for the House of His God has eaten Him up (John 2:17).
When the evening comes, He leaves the defiled city but He returns the following day, passing by the fig tree. In reply to Peter’s remark, the Lord Jesus does not emphasize His own power but directs the disciples’ thoughts towards God. It is as if He said to them, "He who has answered me is ready to answer your prayers too and to remove every obstacle in your path, even if it is as large as a mountain." To have faith in God is not to force us to believe that our wishes will be granted. It is to rely on Someone who knows us, who is faithful and who loves us. But there is one situation when God certainly will not be able to answer us. This is when we have "ought against any". This is an insurmountable mountain in the path of our relationship with God. We must deal with it straight away so that we find our way back to Him and also to our brethren, the "ways" of the heart of which Psalms 84:5 speaks.
In v. 27 the Lord begins His last discourse, in the course of which He confounds His adversaries one after the other.
