Mark 6:31
Scoffers might say that Jesus obviously did not know that the crowd would follow him, and that his followers would have no good chance to rest. Ah, but what did it teach his followers, to say that they needed to rest? Do we fail to remember that God rested on the seventh day after his work of creation? Jesus knew they wouldn’t get to rest that day, but he was teaching.
The course of time is a lesson to us, rather than a limitation of God’s eternal nature. As God, Jesus taught his followers the glory of the rest after a job done in the power of God. It is God who teaches us the need for rest, not simply fatigue. Rest seals the completion of the work. It is as much a glory to Christ for his followers to be told they may rest as it that he gives them power over sickness and the kingdom of darkness.
1 Kings 18:1-19:21
James 2:4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us the truth. I find myself thinking this all of the time. We live our lives and think we know so much. But, all the time, there you are with the truth. It never changes, it always is there, right in front of us.Thank you for Christ! In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray and praise you, Amen.
Pray for a man who is near to death.
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