What a night. You certainly deserved a lay-in. I would imagine that You and Your disciples were exhausted with all the people crowding around the house and with all the amazing things that had been happening. But as they slept – so You rose before dawn, left the house where You were staying and went off to a solitary place to pray. We can sometimes get so involved in things, so busy, that we forget to pray – to our own cost. And yet You never once forgot that special relationship with Your Father.
Having given out all day and then all night as well You spent time soaking up that relationship – recharging as it were Your spiritual batteries. There is a lesson for us all to learn here. We marvel at the teaching, we marvel at the miracles, but do we pray? Your life was in perfect balance with your heavenly Father.
When they finally awoke and discovered that You were missing they came searching for You, and finally when they found You they urged You to come back to the town because word had spread and everyone wanted a piece of the action. But Your agenda was already fixed by Your Father and there was no room to be controlled by crowds marching to another tune. “Let’s go somewhere else”. And so many others were able to hear Your teaching and preaching and be touched by Your power.
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Simon and his companions went to look for him, and when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!” Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.” So he travelled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons. NIV
