NO ONE NOTICED BUT HIM ... HE DID WHAT HE NEEDED TO DO TO RETAIN HIS IDENTITY... HOW DO WE RETAIN OUR IDENTITY IN THE MIDST OF A CHANGING WORLD AROUND US.We all experience successes and failures. How we handle these moments actually can define our identities unless we have a way to reset. Don't allow success or failure make you unrecognizable ..."I don't know who you are!" If that phrase comes your way from someone you love ...BETTER LISTEN.
After a miraculous recruitment of disciples in Luke 5 ... Jesus cures a Leper, a most contagiously infected and rejected individual; covered by his disease, controlled by his disease, untouchable because of his disease ...Cured by Jesus after a very tactile embrace from the Savior. The impossible done, He was now on the public broadcast system (though Jesus said go show yourself to the priest and keep it hush-hush) due to human nature's fascination with Miracles. Jesus did one big one and his fame spread like a wildfire. Success ...what does he do so he doesn't lose his identity? Let's take peek ......
Luke 5:15-16
But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear , and to be healed by him of their infirmities. Jesus' response to the overwhelming success and fame ...He lets it go to His head???? And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed .
Let's look at what this means through the revelation of the words ..."He retreated back to who He was... in a place void of success, and He communed with the Father".
Whether it be success or failure ...the place to go is to "who we are in Him". Don't sacrifice the integrity of your eternal relationship with Him for a few measly, tasty, temporal crumbs in this fading life.
True Success is found in our relationship with Jesus. Sink your energies into cultivating the most amazing GIFT life on this side of Heaven...Knowing Him and the power of His Resurrection.
Love Jesus Openly because you've retreated to Him in the Solitary.
HLFA,
Jeff
Whether it be success or failure ...the place to go is to "who we are in Him". Don't sacrifice the integrity of your eternal relationship with Him for a few measly, tasty, temporal crumbs in this fading life.
True Success is found in our relationship with Jesus. Sink your energies into cultivating the most amazing GIFT life on this side of Heaven...Knowing Him and the power of His Resurrection.
Love Jesus Openly because you've retreated to Him in the Solitary.
HLFA,
Jeff