Faith Venture

At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus would rise early and “get lost” to spend time in prayer and meditation. After he had gathered some people around him and begun preaching and healing in earnest, he would still take time to get away alone. Evidently this was as strange a practice back then as it is now for many. His disciples looked for him during his first public teaching. Couldn’t find him. He was out praying.

Then at the end of his physical ministry, he still took time to go off alone and pray. This time, he took his inner circle to pray with him. He still went off alone, but left them just down the hill in the Garden. After three years of learning from him, these men still didn’t get it. Jesus prayed, they slept.

Not an early riser? You can become one. Go to bed a little earlier and then get up earlier. It’s a perfect time to read and meditate and pray. I’m writing this on an early Saturday (I get up about the same time every day–between 5:30 and 6–no matter what time zone I happen to be existing in at the moment) and spring is here. Spring bird calls greet the sun’s very early light still dimly brightening the Eastern horizon. Starting the day like Jesus is a good way to focus and then try to live like him. Easter is tomorrow, where we remember the resurrection. There’s no better time than then to contemplate on the thought “God is good.”

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