Hijacks Jesus

Emerging from the Gospel are three important spiritual matters:

After being sent out:

The Twelve rejoin Jesus and tell him all they have done and taught (Mark 6).

At the end of each day, our prayer life can take this shape: speaking to the Lord about what we have done and said.

The need for rest is then acknowledged:

Jesus said to them, ‘You must come away to some lonely place all by yourselves and rest for a while.’

We are spirit, soul and body (1 Thessalonians 5) and the connection between each of the composites is profound:

Failing to rest the body will affect spirit and soul.

Likewise, if the mind and will are hard at it ‘twenty-four seven,’ then we can expect bodily collapse.

Then again, inattentiveness to the need of the spirit – our capacity for God – will completely disorientate body and soul.

However, the crowd hijacks Jesus. Rest cannot be secured. Jesus magnanimously accepts the situation:

Jesus saw a large crowd and he took pity on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.

Our goal is to see people the way Jesus sees them – and like Jesus to teach them with patience.

Amen.