7:00 wake up get ready for the day
8:00 get to work and start teaching
2:00 get interrupted for an impromptu, contentious meeting
5:00 leave work and head to a friend's for dinner
6:00 get interuppted at dinner with an urgent work email
7:00 urgent work meeting draws you away from your evening
10:00 get home and finally unwind
11:00 head to bed
Sound familiar? A day packed full of work and life. Lately I seem to always be saying: "God didn't intend us to be this busy." With everything from email to smart phones to Twitter. It's beyond difficult to unplug. And even when I do get away from the bombardment of communication, I want to spend time with friends, go out to dinner, get to church. I often find myself thinking life wasn't always this busy. Was it? Take a second to read Mark 1:21-34. This is one of the earliest days of Jesus' public ministry and he's on the go from sunup to sundown. He's teaching, he's casting out demons, he's having dinner with friends, he's healing people. The word immediately is used four times in this passage. Everything is urgent.
Funny. This sounds exactly like my life - well, minus the healing and casting out demons part, but certainly the running from one thing to the next. This is Jesus, my Savior, God in the flesh, experiencing a really busy day in a very practical way. He might not have had time to eat lunch. He was definitely exhausted. I can only imagine him finally laying down to close his eyes at the end of the day feeling completely drained, craving a few hours of sweet uninterrupted sleep.
Isn't there an unspeakable amount of comfort in realizing my Savior is able to really understand how we feel, in knowing Jesus had busy days, just like me?
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