Facing up

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 7, 9 July 1985, Page 20

Facing up

Jesus said: 'Come ye apart into a desert place and rest awhile.' Mark 6:31. His disciples had been very busy doing all He had told them to do and He knew they needed rest. God knows too when we need rest, and if we have been very busy doing what we know God wants us to do, He will see too that we receive the rest and refreshment we need. If we read a little further in Mark 6, we see that the disciples went with Jesus to the desert place of His choosing, and in verse 39 there was green grass for them to sit on. And even though it was a desert place

there was still satisfying work to be done in that green place — people to feed. In 2 Timothy 3:16 we are told: 'All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable ... for instruction,' so we can safely assume that there is a lesson for us to learn in the desert place. It is , never totally barren.

We may seem to have been set aside from the hurly-burly of life, but if we look, we will surely find the green spot in the desert; and possibly find God has, even there, some small job for us to do so that we will know we are not forsaken or lost in that desert place, for He too is there.

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