So Jesus has a lie in to recover! NO not at all Jesus does what is truly needful,
he get up while it is still dark before 6 am when it gets light and goes out possibly
into the hills behind the village to spend time with God, to pray which as the prayer
letter reminds us this week includes listening! Peter and the others come to find
him and tell him people here need to see you again, but Jesu knew he had but just
started and in the area of Galilee there were over 200 villages and it was to more
of them he went, guided, driven possibly, by His time of quiet and solitude in prayer
with His Dad.
There most surely is a message in there for us isn’t there. If Jesus God’s Son needed
that time to sort out His life, His priorities, how much more do we? Quiet times
alone with God listening to Him, remembering that solitude can be achieved in the
presence of others so our Quiet Day in June will allow some solitude time. It can
as one preacher outlined be in the company of someone close who wishes to share the
experience of just being out, in the car, on foot, with God. Yes it can be on our
own, but let us use our imaginations prayerfully to allow God to guide us into those
quiet times. Times spent with Him, quality time as we call it, remembering that great
and inspiring truth, I was refreshed with this week in Bible exploration, we are
the product of God’s imagination, what a person to spend time with.