Scripture for Today | Mark 10:2-16 (with Pastor Nick)

About this Episode

Opening Song:

Today If You Hear Him by Taylor Leonhardt

Lyrics:

Today if you hear him,

Skipping rocks on the river,

Laughing in the garden,

Like when you were young.

 

Today if you hear him,

Walking through the pine woods,

Racing down the big hill,

Calling you to come.

 

Don't be too grown, oh,

For your own sake.

Let the children come,

Let us become like children today.

 

Today if you hear him,

Let your feet take off running,

Don't worry who is watching,

Let him kiss you on the face.

 

Let the children come,

Let us become like children today.

Passage: 

2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 7 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” 16 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them. 

(Mark 10:2–16)

Musical Reflection: 

Jesus Loves Me by William B. Bradbury

Reflection Notes: 

This sweet and familiar song was written in 1861 for the composer’s church school and has become a favorite because of the warm reminders associated with its text: “Jesus loves me, this I know.” 

Prayer:

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those things of which our conscience is afraid, and giving us those good things for which we are not worthy to ask, except through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen