“WITHDRAW TO DESOLATE PLACES AND PRAY!”

 Luke 5:16                          (ESV)

“[16] But HE would “WITHDRAW TO DESOLATE PLACES AND PRAY”.”

Most people who take the time to read my offerings are aware of the Brain Hemorrhage I experienced in 2007.  Although it has been almost sixteen years ago, I continue being taught lessons from “the valley of the shadow of death”.  

JESUS had just healed a leper in the verses prior to verse sixteen.  Then shortly thereafter HE healed a paralytic man!  But in the midst of HIS MINISTRY, JESUS had to “WITHDRAW TO DESOLATE PLACES AND PRAY”!  GOD in the flesh had the need to be alone with the FATHER and “recharge”, to refocus HIS energies on HIS MISSION!  

Why don’t we understand that if JESUS needed to BE STILL, certainly we need to take time from our busy schedules to “WITHDRAW TO DESOLATE PLACES AND PRAY”?  Certainly we aren’t more capable than THE ALMIGHTY at being capable of keeping our focus on what needs to be done by us?  What is more important for us to do than to “WITHDRAW TO DESOLATE PLACES AND PRAY????