An Appointment with Christ: Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30) Part 3
Dr. Roberto Miranda
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: It is important to take time to rest and replenish our physical and emotional energies. Our bodies and brains need time to recover from constant use, just like a machine needs maintenance. We should take time to reflect on spiritual things and seek God, and not let work consume us. God commanded the Hebrews to keep the Sabbath to rest and reflect, and we should take at least one day to do the same. Going to church and being in fellowship with our brothers and sisters in Christ can also give us strength for the rest of the week. Let us seek first the Kingdom of God and His justice, and the other things will follow.
Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30)
In this series, Dr. Miranda speaks of the compassionate Christ who, instead of rejecting the crowd that had followed him and his disciples, had compassion on them and took time to teach them. In contrast, the disciples have a superficial and selfish attitude.
1 An Appointment with Christ: Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30)
2 An Appointment with Christ : The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:1) Part 2
3 An Appointment with Christ: Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30) Part 3
4 An Appointment with Christ: Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30) Part 4
5 An Appointment with Christ: Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30) Part 5
6 An Appointment with Christ: Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30) Part 6
7 An Appointment with Christ: Multiplication of the loaves and fishes (Mark 6:30) Part 7
We have talked about the importance of living life in complete intimacy with the person of Jesus Christ, the reliance that is required on God and the Holy Spirit and on Jesus Christ to have a happy, effective, and peace-filled life.
After leaving on their missionary trip, the disciples returned and met Jesus again. It is interesting that when the passage says that they approached Christ, he told them "Come apart, this is in verse 31, come apart, to a deserted place and rest a little", he says "because there were many who went and they came in such a way that they didn't even have time to eat." I like that of the Lord Jesus Christ when the disciples approached Him to share with Him the experiences of the last days, they found that the Lord also wanted to be with them, and He tells them: "boys, let's go to a separate place, we won't Let's talk here, but we are going to take a vacation, we are going to a resting place where we do not have to deal with people, the demands of the ministry and we are going to talk. I want you to rest, I want you to clear your minds and replenish your physical and emotional energies and then we will have the opportunity to share in a deeper way.
I love this idea of a Christ, who wants us to rest and have the opportunity to share with Him in an intimate way, without interruptions. Brothers, how important it is that we take time to rest, simply rest, I am not referring here to things that are too sublime or spiritual, but simply that we know that we need to take time to relax our bodies, to replenish our energies.
Do you know that when you work, be it with the mind or whatever, the neurons, the cells of your brain, use certain chemical substances, which, like anything else by being used, wear out and need to be replaced and one needs take time to replenish energy and replenish the chemical substances that the body and brain need to carry out their natural processes. If we are continuously consuming, consuming and expending energy, and we do not take time for the body to replenish that energy and those chemical substances, we are going to burn out, we are going to wear ourselves out, we are always going to be in emotional, mental and physical deficit. It is like a machine that is always working and working and we do not take time to stop it, oil it, clean it and even replace some parts that have worn out due to use.
How important it is that if we are working, we take time to recover our strength. That reminds me of the story of a man who was using a saw, a big saw to cut a tree and after a while the saw became dull because the tree was big, and a man approached him and said: "hey Why don't you stop to sharpen the saw, and this man replied: "I can't because I'm too busy sawing the tree."
Brothers, if we think about it, if this man had stopped and sharpened the saw, he wouldn't have had to work as hard and he would have been able to cut down that tree in much less time, with less effort. Let's take time to sharpen the saw, so to speak, of our lives, let's take time to rest.
I see many people who are physically worn out and exhausted because they work too much. Housewives who get up early to prepare food for their children and who As soon as they have put them on to go to school, they immediately rush to go to work and when they return to work again, they go to bed late, burnt out, worn out. The next day they repeat the same process and it is not surprising that so they are irritable and exhausted and in a bad mood, even depressed and resentful with the children and with the husband because they do not take time to rest. We have to take time to rest. There are so many people who work 12, 14 hours a day sometimes seven days a week. They do not take time to go to a separate place and rest a little. And you know that when we do not give the body time to rest we are sinning in a sense, because our body says the Bible "is the temple of the Holy Spirit", our body does not belong to ourselves, the body belongs to God and God gives us allows us to live inside that body so to speak and He expects us to take care of that body, to treat it well, that what belongs to Him, we give it the best possible treatment and God expects us to take time to rest, to reflect and think about eternal things.
I think that is why God ordered the Hebrews to keep the Sabbath because the natural tendency of man is to work and work and toil and let himself be absorbed by the worries and cares of life and put aside the need for rest. Become obsessed with work to the point of believing that if we don't keep working the world will stop and we will suffer losses.
But God and his wisdom commanded the Hebrews prisoners and us too that we take time to keep Saturday, to stop and take time to reflect on God and spiritual things. That we take our hands off the wheel and want God to show us that He is truly the one who rules and supplies in our lives.
Now I clarify that when I speak of Saturday and I believe that when God speaks of Saturday he is not necessarily referring to the sixth day of the week as there are some Christians who believe that if you do not keep Saturday specifically, that you are sinning against God. I believe that God is not so interested in a particular day but that we understand that we have to take out at least one day. We have to take an extended time to rest and to think about Him and to reflect on spiritual things, that we stop working and that we give God an opportunity to demonstrate that He is capable of supplying our needs if we put the affairs of His kingdom first. How many people say they don't go to church because they don't have time, because they have to work or take care of the house or many other things that worry them. That is a lie, it is a self-deception. God wants us to take time to be with Him. God wants families to take time so that a day like Sunday, which is the day that Christians normally set aside to go to church, apart from other days that we dedicate to the Lord, but that at least on that day we take the morning to get dressed and go to the house of God and present our offering, our holocaust to the Lord, praise him, bless him, receive a word from God, be in fellowship with our brothers and celebrate the fact that we are a family of faith and that gives us strength for the rest of the week.
How sad and what a waste it is when Christians spend our lives from work to work, from work to work and from Monday to Sunday. We repeat the same task, the same routine and we do not take time to get away, as we see here that the Lord says: "come aside to a deserted place and rest a little", if we do not take time to rest we are in disobedience, if we do not we take time to seek God at a given moment and give God our offering, we are in disobedience, if we seek first the Kingdom of God and his justice, says the word, the other things for which we strive will come in addition.
May the Lord give you the wisdom to take time to rest, rest physically but also rest in the spirit seeking the things of God. May God bless you and may that peace of Christ that passes all understanding be with you.
After leaving on their missionary trip, the disciples returned and met Jesus again. It is interesting that when the passage says that they approached Christ, he told them "Come apart, this is in verse 31, come apart, to a deserted place and rest a little", he says "because there were many who went and they came in such a way that they didn't even have time to eat." I like that of the Lord Jesus Christ when the disciples approached Him to share with Him the experiences of the last days, they found that the Lord also wanted to be with them, and He tells them: "boys, let's go to a separate place, we won't Let's talk here, but we are going to take a vacation, we are going to a resting place where we do not have to deal with people, the demands of the ministry and we are going to talk. I want you to rest, I want you to clear your minds and replenish your physical and emotional energies and then we will have the opportunity to share in a deeper way.
I love this idea of a Christ, who wants us to rest and have the opportunity to share with Him in an intimate way, without interruptions. Brothers, how important it is that we take time to rest, simply rest, I am not referring here to things that are too sublime or spiritual, but simply that we know that we need to take time to relax our bodies, to replenish our energies.
Do you know that when you work, be it with the mind or whatever, the neurons, the cells of your brain, use certain chemical substances, which, like anything else by being used, wear out and need to be replaced and one needs take time to replenish energy and replenish the chemical substances that the body and brain need to carry out their natural processes. If we are continuously consuming, consuming and expending energy, and we do not take time for the body to replenish that energy and those chemical substances, we are going to burn out, we are going to wear ourselves out, we are always going to be in emotional, mental and physical deficit. It is like a machine that is always working and working and we do not take time to stop it, oil it, clean it and even replace some parts that have worn out due to use.
How important it is that if we are working, we take time to recover our strength. That reminds me of the story of a man who was using a saw, a big saw to cut a tree and after a while the saw became dull because the tree was big, and a man approached him and said: "hey Why don't you stop to sharpen the saw, and this man replied: "I can't because I'm too busy sawing the tree."
Brothers, if we think about it, if this man had stopped and sharpened the saw, he wouldn't have had to work as hard and he would have been able to cut down that tree in much less time, with less effort. Let's take time to sharpen the saw, so to speak, of our lives, let's take time to rest.
I see many people who are physically worn out and exhausted because they work too much. Housewives who get up early to prepare food for their children and who As soon as they have put them on to go to school, they immediately rush to go to work and when they return to work again, they go to bed late, burnt out, worn out. The next day they repeat the same process and it is not surprising that so they are irritable and exhausted and in a bad mood, even depressed and resentful with the children and with the husband because they do not take time to rest. We have to take time to rest. There are so many people who work 12, 14 hours a day sometimes seven days a week. They do not take time to go to a separate place and rest a little. And you know that when we do not give the body time to rest we are sinning in a sense, because our body says the Bible "is the temple of the Holy Spirit", our body does not belong to ourselves, the body belongs to God and God gives us allows us to live inside that body so to speak and He expects us to take care of that body, to treat it well, that what belongs to Him, we give it the best possible treatment and God expects us to take time to rest, to reflect and think about eternal things.
I think that is why God ordered the Hebrews to keep the Sabbath because the natural tendency of man is to work and work and toil and let himself be absorbed by the worries and cares of life and put aside the need for rest. Become obsessed with work to the point of believing that if we don't keep working the world will stop and we will suffer losses.
But God and his wisdom commanded the Hebrews prisoners and us too that we take time to keep Saturday, to stop and take time to reflect on God and spiritual things. That we take our hands off the wheel and want God to show us that He is truly the one who rules and supplies in our lives.
Now I clarify that when I speak of Saturday and I believe that when God speaks of Saturday he is not necessarily referring to the sixth day of the week as there are some Christians who believe that if you do not keep Saturday specifically, that you are sinning against God. I believe that God is not so interested in a particular day but that we understand that we have to take out at least one day. We have to take an extended time to rest and to think about Him and to reflect on spiritual things, that we stop working and that we give God an opportunity to demonstrate that He is capable of supplying our needs if we put the affairs of His kingdom first. How many people say they don't go to church because they don't have time, because they have to work or take care of the house or many other things that worry them. That is a lie, it is a self-deception. God wants us to take time to be with Him. God wants families to take time so that a day like Sunday, which is the day that Christians normally set aside to go to church, apart from other days that we dedicate to the Lord, but that at least on that day we take the morning to get dressed and go to the house of God and present our offering, our holocaust to the Lord, praise him, bless him, receive a word from God, be in fellowship with our brothers and celebrate the fact that we are a family of faith and that gives us strength for the rest of the week.
How sad and what a waste it is when Christians spend our lives from work to work, from work to work and from Monday to Sunday. We repeat the same task, the same routine and we do not take time to get away, as we see here that the Lord says: "come aside to a deserted place and rest a little", if we do not take time to rest we are in disobedience, if we do not we take time to seek God at a given moment and give God our offering, we are in disobedience, if we seek first the Kingdom of God and his justice, says the word, the other things for which we strive will come in addition.
May the Lord give you the wisdom to take time to rest, rest physically but also rest in the spirit seeking the things of God. May God bless you and may that peace of Christ that passes all understanding be with you.
