“When He was alone the twelve … asked of Him …” Mark 4:10
His Solitude with Us. When God gets us alone by affliction, heartbreak, or temptation, by disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted affection, by a broken friendship, or by a new fnendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are dumbfounded, and cannot ask one question, then He begins to expound. Watch Jesus Christ's training of the twelve. It was the disciples, not the crowd outside, who were perplexed. They constantly asked Him questions, and He constantly expounded things to them; but they only understood after they had received the Holy Spirit (see John 14:26).
If you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you, and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with your own soul. Your brother's sorrows and perplexities are an absolute confusion to you. We imagine we understand where the other person is, until God gives us a dose of the plague of our own hearts. There are whole tracts of stubbornness and ignorance to be revealed by the Holy Spirit in each one of us, and it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone. Are we alone with Him now, or are we taken up with little fussy notions, fussy comradeships in God's service, fussy ideas about our bodies? Jesus can expound nothing until we get through all the noisy questions of the head and are alone with Him.
4 comments:
Interesting ? The answer for me is probably not as much as I should. Can you imagine going out for an entire night to pray?? I think what we consider alone time with God is far from what was originally done. Anyway, I certainly need to find away to get more alone time with God and learn to be quiet and just listen.
cas
Clark, I'm right there with you...If I truly desire intimacy with God I have to make it a priority in my thoughts during the day, in my devotionals, in my time in the Word, and in my actions of worship, service and work. If I dont make time and I still truly desire intimacy He Will make time for me and it may be painful.
Guys, pray for me to find the quiet times in the day and I'll pray for you.
I have to confess, that I haven' t been alone with God for a long time. Pray that I make the time to bealonewith Him.
ldb
right there with you. been a long time for me to truly be alone with God. i tend to insert Him here and there - particularly when i need Him. when i think about what being alone with him looks like, it's pretty cool. full surrender is what i see. and full devotion. full praise to Him.
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