“12 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, His disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare the Passover so You may eat it?”

13 So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him. 14 Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, ‘Where is the guest room for Me to eat the Passover with My disciples?’ 15 He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.’ 16 So the disciples went out, entered the city, and found it just as He had told them, and they prepared the Passover.”

Mark 14:12-16

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This preparation, in addition to the colt for the Triumphal Entry, reveal to us that Jesus has already made all the preparations necessary for us to come and meet with Him. There is still work for us to do, but He has prepared and provided before we even think to begin. Just like the disciples simply had to acknowledge their desire to prepare the Passover meal, we need to come straight to Jesus and acknowledge our desire to be near Him. 

We like to make this overly complicated or make excuses why we don’t have time, but Jesus stands before us, time and place already secured, opportunity for communion close at hand. We have to make the effort to go there, and we should prepare for that meeting, but there should be no question over whether or or we do this. 

As a Christian, our first desire should be for Christ. We should desire to grow with Him, to grow in Him and to seek out maturity. He should be our passion, our longing. Jesus Christ should be the cry of our hearts! 

If we are ‘too busy’ for Jesus, we should pray that the Father disciplines us, prunes us, so that our hearts and attitudes are corrected. I cannot imagine Jesus telling me that He was too busy to meet with me, that He just had too much on His plate. What a sad state of affairs that would be for all of us. But Christ showed His love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, He took the time to die for us. He created the hill He would walk up, the will of the Father spawned the tree that would hold His body, the cow from whose hide the leather flagellum would be made and the stone and iron whipping post where His back would be laid open. If God took the time to prepare the sacrifice, His Son, surely we can carve out time to meet with Him daily. 

As we GoLove others in His Name, people should see the place of priority that Christ holds in our life. Not because we are acting pious and obvious to draw attention to ourselves, but because our days and nights contain so much of the reality of Christ’s presence that we cannot deny Him these daily, sacred moments. Our dedication speaks to His dedication, our devotion to His, of course His example far overshadows our own.