COME TO ME
16th Jul 2014
It’s wonderful to read the story of Jesus healing, delivering and ministering to crowds and individuals. Have you noticed that whenever He was faced with dilemmas He took “time out” to be with His Father? One hymn writer has described it as, “the silence of eternity, interpreted by love?”
Luke 5:16 says, “But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” He needed to come aside and dwell with His Father, simply being with One who knew his every thought, who supplied Him with supernatural refreshment, and then shared His wisdom in the situations that confronted Jesus day after day.
Before He chose His disciples He spent a night with the Father. When Lazarus was sick to the point of death, He waited to get His Father’s mind on what really was happening. When the crowds wanted to crown him King, He responded by withdrawing into a quiet place away from the hype. Faced with His own death, He was found alone with the Father - human comfort was nearby, but asleep!
You and I also need this place of “aloneness with the Father” - it is a place where burdens are lifted, where what makes no sense to our human understanding is explained in the light of an eternal perspective. A place where questions are posed, and answers are given, not so much by explanation, as by presence and love, by comfort and security, where peace becomes real and strength returns.
Jesus declared that He and the Father were one, living life in divine connection, even so, He still needed to rest, be still, wait, dwell and be overwhelmed afresh by the presence of His Father and equipped to keep going. Everything Jesus did and said came from this intimacy, knowing and being known.
Jesus wants to teach us to relate to Him in the same way. As we do so we will see the greater works that the Father will do through us, His agents on earth, in this generation.
by Joyce Sibthorpe
