Optimist Ibk

"Then Jesus went up on a mountain side and sat down with His disciple" (John 6:3). Have you ever noticed how jam-packed and full everyday life can get (Like walking down in Lagos Oshodi Way)? Sometimes it gets so full that it's a like the garbage bag that you try to get, "one more thing" in, only to try to get even one more in, just to find out the bag can only stretch so far. Now, you have everything you thought was contained all over you and everything around you. There are days when that is life! The disciples of Jesus began to grow in a deeper knowledge and understanding of that same truth. Life is full, and not always of the "good stuff." In this verse we find that there was a great crowd of people that had been following Jesus and the disciples.But, before they engaged in the ministry to the people, they first went up to the mountain and spent time with Jesus. The ministry would wait. The people would wait. The opportunity would wait. The dis