A Quiet Place to Rest

The miracle is so striking that it's easy to overlook what happens right before:

³⁰ The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. ³¹ Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”
³² So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place. 

Mark 6:30-32 [emphasis added]

I love that: "Come with me...to a quiet place and get some rest."

What happens next is that the disciples are followed by the crowd, whom Jesus miraculously feeds. But first, he knew the disciples needed a quiet place to rest.

We still need it.

Find a quiet place today.

Today’s Scripture

Mark 6:30-44

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A Solitary Place

Reading Mark, one gets the sense of how exhausting ministry must have been for Jesus. This is why he routinely tells people--and even the demons--to keep quiet about his identity: when word gets out--as it inevitably does--he is hounded by the crowds.

I'm not thronged by crowds when I leave the house, and neither are you. But, I do face a challenge Jesus did not face: through the little phone in my pocket and the access it provides to the wider world, millions of people are clamoring for my attention.

If Jesus needed to withdraw to a solitary place to be alone in the mornings, what about us?

(And don't take your phone with you.)

Today's Scripture

Mark 1:29-45

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