Being with Jesus

After Jesus chose the apostles in Mark’s  Gospel, the sentence is. He chose them to stay with him. If a  Christian is to maintain his identity in this world, he must live with Jesus. In the Gospel of John, we read Jesus’request. I want those whom you have given me to be with me. We know it; if we love someone, we want to be with that person. And we express this wish, for example, by visiting each other. We will show our joy when we meet. It is almost unbelievable that the Son of God wants to be with us. A person lets himself be distracted by various things and forget that he should be with Jesus. We are not supposed to be alone. Jesus didn’t want to be alone either. He called on the apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane: Stay with me and watch with me. But the apostles fell asleep. And Jesus said to them. You couldn’t watch with me for an hour. Many people are not with Jesus, nor do they find it strange. This doesn’t mean we have to hold some worship services. A husband can be connected to his wife even when he is at work. He can talk to other women, but he has only one wife in his heart. Whoever is not with Jesus is not a Christian. The Lord Jesus said that whoever is not with me is against. There is no, nobody’s territory. When we are not with Jesus, we will not experience the joy of being with Jesus. In the past, people began every work with prayer. That is, they did not want to do anything without Jesus. And it was right. What would it be like if the spouses did not make their decisions together, but each on their own? Would there be unity between them? As we are with Jesus, we are filled with inner peace. We are not helpless because we have someone stronger behind us. A well-known Trappist, Troar wrote. We must not leave the God of action for the sake of action for God. Today, the value of labor is much higher than that of being. The essence of the spiritual life is that we are gradually transformed into Jesus, So we can say with St. Paul. I live, but I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The essence of Jesus’s life is to adopt the spirit of Jesus and  act on it. We are to be united with God in love, and this connection is our highest or greatest happiness. It is not important how much we do outwardly, but whether we are united to Jesus. Many have done great things. And it meant nothing to God. It doesn’t matter how fast we go, but to persevere on the road. Not a successful of Peter is a picture of the human effort to act without  God. That doesn’t mean he didn’t know , but he didn’t call a Lord to do it. And there comes a moment in our lives when our strength is no longer enough. Sometimes human failure makes us, that we turn to God. Of course, it would not be right for us to ask God to support us in our vain thoughts, We need to adopt the mindset of Jesus.