Yesterday some great moments on the streets. I have a special flyer. It is awesome. God will use it.
Luk1,46-80 Maria is singing a song to God. It is like a Psalm. Maria is very thankful for every thing what happened: That she is pregnant. That Joseph is maybe about to leave Maria ...
It seems that Maria has a lot of peace. No word of being afraid.
Just thankfulness.
Maria stays by Elizabeth for 3Month. Then she is going home. How was the welcome at home? It was visible now, that she is pregnant.
Then John is born. People think he will have the name of his father. But Elisabeth says 'No' and then also Zacharias is writing the Name John on a tablet. And immediately after that, Zacharias can speak again.
And people realize, that with this boy things are different. They are filled with awe.
Then Zacharias is singing his Psalm to the Lord - similar like Maria.
And in the end the first years of John [the Baptist] are described - just 1vers: 80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel.
He was alone
There was no one else
Being alone can have something very strengthening
Moses was alone - almost, but many times for 40years just with sheep the hole day, the hole week, the hole years
Elia was alone - crows brought him to eat / other time he was running away - in the desert - there he saw God
The prophets had many revelations in moments of being alone
In the scripture i can not see, how old John was, when he went alone in the desert. I try to imagine how he explained to his father, that he needs to go in the desert. I can not see how old he was, when he started to preach. But he did it in the desert. People came out to him. But the time alone in the desert was probably more then a day.
Do i have time enough to listen to God - alone, to get the inspiration i need from God? Could i see God recently? What did i see? What was his message for my heart?
John was alone in the desert.
John was not alone in the desert for the rest of his life.
To prepare the way for the Lord. The Lord took a man and placed him away in the desert. This man living alone is getting ready to be the voice preparing the way of the Lord. He maybe forgot how people really are and think. He maybe just focused on God. He learned not how people are and what they do but how God is and what he is doing. Maybe this was all he really experienced during this desert time - God and himself and himself and God and God and himself and himself and God
And then some people passed by him. He had a little conversation with them. But for this people it was as if they wold hear pure God. Because nothing in John was damaged by society. John was a concentrate of God. He had no other experience then God and himself.
I am not sure.
But what if a human being is not influenced by the world but only by the holly spirit?
Even in the first century people had to go away to not be distracted by the world.
I need to be alone - To realize what do i think and feel and what is God thinking and feeling.
God is all i need.