Rest

"Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."  Mark 6:31

Sometimes the most Christ-like thing you can do is to get away and rest. 

Jesus was teaching his disciples how to be like him and how to deal with many people who need things from you. 

He didn't say, "When you've met everyone's needs come away and rest." or "When you are at the point of emotional and physical exhaustion, come away and rest. " or "When you think you've done enough to justify resting, then come and rest." or "When no one is looking, come and rest."....

"Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.
BUT JESUS OFTEN WITHDREW TO LONELY PLACES AND PRAYED."   Luke 5:20

Jesus came to live in front of us how we should live.  He didn't let need dictate his pace. 

I'm afraid we have come to see rest as weak, maybe even lazy.  We equate godly with busy or worn out.  We need to refind balance in our lives, to remember that our first call and first love is Him.  We need to get by ourselves and rest!

I pray that you will find time often to follow this invitation to withdraw with Christ to a lonely place and pray.....and rest. 

And in that rest I pray that your soul will be refreshed and you will discover a calm and intimacy that only time with Jesus can bring!