Luke 5: 16 But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.
I often wonder why it is that we put off time alone with God... time in prayer... yet even Jesus OFTEN withdrew for prayer...
idk about you.. but when I take even 15 minutes.. and just sit in silence before God.. read maybe a few scripture verses.. regardless about what... and just meditate on God.. on His goodness. His greatness.. just who He is... I immediately feel peace overtake me... yet whatever the reason... even though we know it works.. we still allow ourselves to forsake time alone with God...
we are really some silly people...
and this particular verse says.. Jesus withdrew to the wilderness... when I think of wilderness.. I think of a terrible place.. a place where I am wandering around aimlessly without answers.. without rest... is is possible.. that God puts us in the wilderness for exactly the opposite of that... maybe He puts us in the wilderness so that we can spend time in prayer and get some answers... so that we can stop striving so hard and just rest... we know in the wilderness we are pretty much lost without Him anyways... so the point is maybe we can use this time to pray and rest and get some insight...
instead of seeing the wilderness as a bad place.. maybe it is a place of comfort and peace...
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