SCRIPTURE: Mark (NIV) 14:12 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?” 13 So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14 Say to the owner of the house he enters, ‘The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.” 16 The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.
OBSERVATION: What a great privilege for this household to host the last supper. The room could be used because it was “furnished” and “ready.” The owner had provided and prepared it for such an occasion.
APPLICATION: Are my home, my car, and my possessions available and ready to be used by the Lord? More important, is my life available and ready to be used. I need to keep it “furnished” with the truth from the Bible.
If I want the Lord to use me, I must prepare myself to be used and make myself available. I should be as diligent in preparing my life for use as firefighters are in preparing themselves for the next fire and the fire engine for its use.
PRAYER: Lord, show me how to prepare myself and my possessions for Your use. As the song say, “To be used of You is my desire.” Amen.
From the Lord: Today I will do something in your life in preparation for what you will face in the future. It may not seem very important now, but there will be a time when you will understand the wisdom in what I have done. Endure it with grace, knowing that I am preparing you for future service. Amen
Pastor Leon
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