Immediately
Jesus made His disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side to Bethsaida,
while He Himself was sending the crowd away. After bidding them farewell,
He left for the mountain to pray.
Mark 6:45-46 NASB
We've got 10,000 people miraculously fed.
If ever there was an opportunity to build Jesus popularity, his support base, his donors, his "church", political movement, his followers, it was then.
Work the crowd.
What does Jesus do?
Sends his team off in the boat,
sends the crowd home, and goes to pray.
Alone
Up the mountain
In this desolate place, as the crowd is wandering back home, Jesus goes up the mountain.
Jesus Kingdom is not like the kingdoms of this world.
It wasn't then,
and it's not now.
His kingdom is a kingdom of the heart.
And that takes time alone with our heavenly Father.
If Jesus went missing to pray, then it's OK for us to do that too.
#pray
#upsidedownkingdom
#sunday
#worship