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Prepare: We make preparations when meeting with someone important. What will you do to help you consciously and deliberately enter God’s presence: switch off your phone? Sit up straight? Sing a praise song? Tell the Lord how much you’re looking forward to this time?
Clamouring crowds
As Jesus departed towards the sea the crowds, like relentlessly rolling waves, converged upon him (vs 7,8), threatening to crush him (v 9). People flocked from near and far to see him (v 8); those seeking healing strained to touch him (v 10); even evil spirits acclaimed him (v 11).
One thinks of modern-day pop stars surrounded by clamouring crowds reaching out to touch their hero or begging for autographs, with reporters hurling questions and the paparazzi clicking away!
First things first
Yet Jesus refused to be carried along on these waves of urgent excitement. It was not the urgency of the crowds that drove Jesus, but the importance of seeking his Father’s will.
Mountains (v 13) were, typically, places of prayer and divine revelation – and Luke 6:12 indicates that Jesus spent a whole night in prayer before appointing the twelve. Those whom Jesus chooses must also put first things first: they are called first to be with Jesus (v 14a); from this all other activities flow (v 14b).
Respond: Have you distinguished between what is important and what is merely urgent? To what extent are you focusing your time and energy on what is important in God’s eyes?
http://www.wordlive.org/Session/Classic/2012-05-14
Clamouring crowds
As Jesus departed towards the sea the crowds, like relentlessly rolling waves, converged upon him (vs 7,8), threatening to crush him (v 9). People flocked from near and far to see him (v 8); those seeking healing strained to touch him (v 10); even evil spirits acclaimed him (v 11).
One thinks of modern-day pop stars surrounded by clamouring crowds reaching out to touch their hero or begging for autographs, with reporters hurling questions and the paparazzi clicking away!
First things first
Yet Jesus refused to be carried along on these waves of urgent excitement. It was not the urgency of the crowds that drove Jesus, but the importance of seeking his Father’s will.
Mountains (v 13) were, typically, places of prayer and divine revelation – and Luke 6:12 indicates that Jesus spent a whole night in prayer before appointing the twelve. Those whom Jesus chooses must also put first things first: they are called first to be with Jesus (v 14a); from this all other activities flow (v 14b).
Respond: Have you distinguished between what is important and what is merely urgent? To what extent are you focusing your time and energy on what is important in God’s eyes?
http://www.wordlive.org/Session/Classic/2012-05-14
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