Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 (NRSV)
Christ healing the multitudes
The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things. …
When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.
Have you ever felt like there was no time for you to rest? Like the work was never going to end and even when you saw the end, that is when some one or something pops up that needs you to do another task…
That is exactly where Jesus and the disciples are in our reading today. For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. They had no time to eat or rest. So when your work is overwhelming Jesus knows your pain…
Yet when we are ready to give up, Jesus keeps going. Now you might say that there is a difference between my office work and what Jesus did. Maybe…
You were given a gift to use for the betterment of the body of Christ, so doing what you do is what Jesus did. Jesus came to show us a better way to follow what God had asked the people to do yo be in a relationship with him…
So do what you do so the world will change! And know that your leisure will come!
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