A sweet truth

In each of the three stories in Mark 5 things are said that reveal deeper truths.

For example, in the story with the father and daughter Jesus says that the girl is not dead, but sleeping. We know she is actually dead because the adults around her know she is dead. The testify to that fact. But Jesus says she is sleeping, and to Jesus she is, in fact, sleeping.

This is a sweet truth. Spiritually speaking, when someone dies, in God’s eyes they are sleeping. Death has been conquered for believers and children. Death is a fearful thing. Sleep is not. Death is an end. Sleep is not.

Let us see things through the eyes of Jesus, not through man’s eyes.

Tomorrow… A deeper truth about the woman healed from her bleeding.

Friday… A deeper truth about Jesus and the Legion.