Insightful Musings on the Scriptures

by

Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67

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April 2, 2010
    Greetings, dear family and friends.
    A lot of the day has already blown by...it's presently 12:39pm, and I'm being called to the lunch table.  I guess I better get this sent and comply.
    May God richly bless you in your corner of the globe.
        Dad/Ray

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2 April 2010
Passage:  Mark 1:21-45
Focus:  “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.”  Mark 1:35

            I sense we are touching on a very important principle in the life of every true child of God.  Please don’t let this get by you.  It has to do with seeking a daily solitary place for the purpose of communing with the Father.  That priority motivated Jesus to avoid the interference of distractions and rise before others.
            Life is full of circumstances that will prevent a retreat to an actual solitary place.  In some cases, there may be none available.  That’s when the earnest believer will do well to be creative toward securing the next best thing.  However that private communion with the Father is achieved is not as important as that, by some means, it be achieved.  The weight of Jesus’ example should be enough to motivate us to seek and maintain this priority.  If He, the Son of God in flesh, sensed a need to be “shut in with God in a secret place,” how much more should we?