27/02/2023
♥ Daily Meditation February 28, 2023 Ma 14:22-36 ′′ immovable mind ′′
There is a saying to row when the tide comes.
Jesus is very popular with people.
People would have cheered at the miracle of five loaves and two fishes.
The sick are being healed by Jesus.
People would have expected abundance by taking Jesus as their king (John 6:15).
But Jesus hastens to separate his disciples from the crowd. (22)
Jesus goes up on a mountain alone and prays. (23)
It seems that Jesus recognized this as a crisis rather than an opportunity.
A crisis in which he could forget his mission in the excitement of people's cheers.
A crisis that lowers his intimacy with his father because of cheering people.
I shouldn't be swayed by people's reactions either.
I have to walk the rest of my mission. (J)
“Jesus immediately urged his disciples to get into the boat and go ahead to the other side, while he sent the crowds away” (Matthew 14:22).