Immediately is the Gospel’s clock when the King speaks and delay has no vote.
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.
Immediately the fever left her,
and she began to serve them.
Immediately the girl rose and began to walk.
Mark loves the word.
Heaven is not late,
and some obediences are not scheduled for next year.
Euthys runs through Mark like a drum. Jesus is baptized and immediately the Spirit drives Him out. He calls, and nets drop. He speaks, and a leper is clean. A roof opens, a mat is taken up at once. Jairus’s daughter is not “better in a few days.” She walks. Peter’s mother-in-law is not given a week of broth. She serves. The word can mark haste in the wrong direction too: immediately the rooster crows; immediately they brought Him to Pilate. Judas goes out immediately into the night. Immediately is not a charm that makes every prayer a snap. Lazarus was four days dead. A boy’s father cried, I believe; help my unbelief—after years. Paul left Trophimus sick at Miletus. The point of the word is the authority of the Speaker and the rightness of not postponing yes. Today, if you hear His voice. At once they left the boat. The official learned that the seventh hour was enough; he did not need Jesus’ feet on his porch first. Immediately can be a healing. It can be a following. It can be a warning that sin also moves fast. Do not use Mark’s adverb to shame a long obedience. Do use it to refuse a lazy one.
Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.
He lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
Immediately the girl got up and began walking. Immediately he recovered his sight and followed Him on the way.
Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.
He immediately went out. And it was night.
Do not postpone a clear yes. Do not invent a law that every sorrow snaps when you snap your fingers. When He calls, leave the net. When He rebukes, rise. When He delays, still trust the Speaker. Immediately is His adverb. Let it become your obedience.
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