Have you ever been convicted of having a hard heart? I used to term this condition as hard headed. But Jesus knows us to the core. The disciples experienced amnesia in the boat, quickly forgetting the feeding of 5000 with mere ‘lunchables’. One might think that the disciples would have the mindset of what Jesus might teach them next, but their fears over ruled. This has been so true for me, but I hope that I will be more expectant of what God is doing and will do in my storm, in my uncertainty, in my fear.
“Their experience in seeing the five thousand fed was to have prepared them for Jesus walking on the water. In spite of all the deeds of power that they had witnessed, the disciples still reacted out of fear rather than with faith. Their faith was not growing. They did not understand.
They did not understand because “their hearts were hardened” (Mark 6:52). This reference to their hearts anticipates Jesus’s teaching about the heart in the last story in this section (Mark 7:1–23).” - Excerpt, Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Steve Langford
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