Retreat with Jesus

Reflection 

Today, we are reflecting that Jesus went to the solitary place on His own in Mark 1 to take His disciples with Him in Mark 6. It was E.M. Bounds who said ‘None but praying leaders can have praying followers.’ Jesus is inviting us to retreat into prayer with Him. 

But we also read that the crowd followed them into the solitary place. How do we deal with the crowds that distract us as we enter the quiet place of prayer? 

Sometimes our solitary place gets crowded, crowded by life, by all the demands we have on our time and energy, we lose sight of Jesus and his mission when we allow our lives to become crowded. 

Prayer

Lord as we seek to pray for our world and cry out to you for change and transformation of the people we love and the communities we find ourselves in. Help us not to be distracted.

MARK 6:31-34

31 And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 32 And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves. 33 Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 34 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.