The Character of Jesus - COMMITTED TO THE TRUTH

Read Mark 7:14-23.

"...there is nothing outside the man which going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man." (v. 15)

Jesus was correcting wrong practices and thinking about foods--what is clean and what is unclean. It made a lot of waves, but He was so committed to the truth that He risked alienation for it.

I need to have such a commitment. I need to let go of my need for approval (especially by my wife) and commit myself to truth no matter what!

(10/21/98)