Luke 5:12-16
Jesus was in one of the towns when a
man appeared, covered with leprosy. Seeing Jesus he fell on his face and
implored him. ‘Sir,’ he said ‘if you want to, you can cure me.’ Jesus stretched
out his hand, touched him and said, ‘Of course I want to! Be cured!’ And the
leprosy left him at once. He ordered him to tell no one, ‘But go and show
yourself to the priest and make the offering for your healing as Moses
prescribed it, as evidence for them.’ His reputation continued to grow, and
large crowds would gather to hear him and to have their sickness cured, but he
would always go off to some place where he could be alone and pray.
Food for thought!
He would
always go off to some lonely place where he could be alone and pray!
Today’s meditation will be about this fact in the life of Jesus. As you know, everything Jesus did was to teach us. Yes, that is why he is called «Teacher» or «Master», and we «Disciples» or «Learners».
Besides your home, do you have some lonely place you go to in order to be alone and to pray? In other words, do you ever pray, alone? Do you ever stay alone? Where and when? How often? If you don’t have this lonely place and moment, have it. You can’t live on high all day and all days; you cannot live as if in down town. You need to go or be by yourself, to examine YOUR life, and this can hardly be done in the market place.
The gospel says that Jesus “would always go off to some lonely place where he could be alone and pray.” This is what Jesus ALWAYS did; this is what Jesus’ followers do. Why is this good? Well, it is good because Jesus used to do it. What Jesus did is ok, is good, is a must do. Whatever Jesus did was for our edification; was to demonstrate what humans ought to be and do.
Robert Green once said, "If you are always advancing, always attacking, always responding to people emotionally, you have no time to gain perspective. Your strategies will be weak and mechanical, based on things that happened in the past or to someone else. Like a monkey, you will imitate instead of create. Retreating is something you must do every now and then, to find yourself and detach yourself from infecting influences. And the best time to do this is in moments of difficulty and danger."
Jesus would always go off to some lonely place where he could be alone and pray! What about you?
Today’s meditation will be about this fact in the life of Jesus. As you know, everything Jesus did was to teach us. Yes, that is why he is called «Teacher» or «Master», and we «Disciples» or «Learners».
Besides your home, do you have some lonely place you go to in order to be alone and to pray? In other words, do you ever pray, alone? Do you ever stay alone? Where and when? How often? If you don’t have this lonely place and moment, have it. You can’t live on high all day and all days; you cannot live as if in down town. You need to go or be by yourself, to examine YOUR life, and this can hardly be done in the market place.
The gospel says that Jesus “would always go off to some lonely place where he could be alone and pray.” This is what Jesus ALWAYS did; this is what Jesus’ followers do. Why is this good? Well, it is good because Jesus used to do it. What Jesus did is ok, is good, is a must do. Whatever Jesus did was for our edification; was to demonstrate what humans ought to be and do.
Robert Green once said, "If you are always advancing, always attacking, always responding to people emotionally, you have no time to gain perspective. Your strategies will be weak and mechanical, based on things that happened in the past or to someone else. Like a monkey, you will imitate instead of create. Retreating is something you must do every now and then, to find yourself and detach yourself from infecting influences. And the best time to do this is in moments of difficulty and danger."
Jesus would always go off to some lonely place where he could be alone and pray! What about you?
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