Feb. 17, 2007

Feb. 17, 2007

Mat 14:10-14
(10) And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
(11) And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.
(12) And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
(13) When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
(14) And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.

If any one had a reason to be depressed at this time it was definitely Jesus. In the two chapters before we find out about two major cities in the area that because of their unbelief they were not able to get any one healed except for small problems (headache types). Then he moves on into the his own home town and though He preaches quite powerfully, in they end they say that this was Joseph and Mary's child, how can he be so important? Now in this chapter, Jesus looses his ministry partner, the one who has believed in him since before he started the ministry. He has lost him to a very senseless death because a drunken man could not keep his mouth shut. At this point He is most likely worn out and wondering why He is doing all this because right now, nothing seems to be going right.

What do you do when nothing seems to be going right in your life, when your spouse seems to not care about you any more, or your best friend seems to forgotten that you even exist anymore? What do you do when the medical reports come back negative in stead of positive? Not to sound like an old trite phrase from a few years back, but, what would Jesus do?

Jesus took the steps that we all should take, He tried to get Himself to a place where He could talk to His Father. When all the problems of life just seem to hit at once, it is time to take time off and just seek God and get your strength back by listening to Him and what he has for you. This had better not be the only time that you do this though. The devil will use any thing to wear you out. All of a sudden Jesus had multitudes of people come and follow Him because they wanted Him to heal them. Did Jesus run away when this happened, like so many of us would because we need to be alone. No, he had his time with the Father and He could feed off of that. He had compassion and took the time to heal them.

There will be times in our Christian walk that we will need to feed off of the times with the Father that we have had. Take time to do it when you can. You never know when you will need to take care of the multitudes when you are at a low point.