The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done
and taught. He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a deserted place
and rest a while." People were coming and going in great numbers, and they
had no opportunity even to eat. So they went off in the boat by themselves to a
deserted place. People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They
hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before
them. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with
pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to
teach them many things.
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Reflection:
There’s a story of a young man who was so focused in his career He aimed
to be the best n his chosen field. To make a long story short the man
eventually reached the pinnacle of his career. In the process of focusing on
his career he forgot about the importance of God in his life.
After working so hard to spread the good news of Jesus, the Apostles were
invited by Jesus to go to a quiet and deserted place. Why in a quite and
deserted place? Why not in a place with full of food and joyfulness? We all
know the reason why in a quite place, Jesus wanted them to be fully charged
spiritually and be connected with God.
This is what many of us seems to forget, we tend to forget to go to our
own quite place every once in a while. A
quite place where we can be alone with God. We talk in silence to God, we
unburden to God all our worries and we let Him direct us not us directing
ourselves.
We Oftentimes allow ourselves to be eaten by the culture of work
and busyness of this world. But where would this lead us? It will lead us
to nowhere; to an environment where there is no more God. To an environment
where work, busyness and hedonism is already our God and soon we become
creatures of this world.
The danger of this modern world that we are presently in right now is
it’s slowly taking us away from God. It tries very hard to substitute God with
work and material things but this will never give us peace and contentment. Only
GOD will give us peace and contentment, only through GOD that we would discover
a deeper and meaningful life.
There’s more to life
than what this world offers you. And you could only discover it if you would have
a regular quite time with God. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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