Keep Your House Together Mark 3:20-35
Have you ever said anything bad about someone? Maybe someone
made you mad or sad, so you said something mean about them? It
might have been your brother or sister, your mom or dad. It might
have been someone at school.
Things like that happen all the time, dont they? And even if we
dont say the bad things out loud, sometimes we think them really
hard. What kinds of things do you think when someone hurts your
feelings or upsets you?
One day, some people got upset with Jesus. We dont really know
why. Maybe it was something he said. Maybe it was something he did.
What we do know is that people were saying mean things about
Jesus. They said he had gone out of his mind and he had the
devil in him and he was working with the devil.
When Jesuss family heard all this, they were worried. So, they
held onto Jesus.
But Jesus didnt just stand there with his family. He had
something to say to the people who were saying mean things about
him. Do you know what Jesus said?
Jesus said a house cant stand if its divided. Can you guess what
that means? It might be a little confusing, because it sounds like
hes talking about a real house. So, lets look at it a couple of
ways.
We can think of a house as being like a family and we know a
family cant survive very well if it is divided. Families do better
when they are happy and healthy and working together to love one
another.
Another way to look at a house is to think about individual
people. If you are a house, you have to keep yourself together. You
have to know what is right and what is wrong. You cant have all the
thoughts in your head going in different directions or you get
confused. Jesus knew that, too. And he knew that he wasnt working
for the devil. That would have divided him, because he was working
for God, doing good things for Gods people.
As you think about doing Gods work, doing good things for Gods
people, think about how you can keep your house together. How can
you think good thoughts and keep your life and your mind healthy
and whole?
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Mark 3:25And if a house is divided against itself, that house
will not be able to stand.
