How many times do you start feeling down and deflated after you have reached a high in some way, accomplished a feat, moved on from some major activitiy to the next, or just notched one of your bucket list items and “then you kind of feel an emptiness?” How should you deal with this feeling? How do you move on with the enthusiasm needed for the daily activities that are right in front of you?
Sometimes you need some solitude to just let things settle in. Sometimes you have to be careful not to totally separate yourself too long from friends and family to allow yourself to start feeling like you are falling off to the opposite side of the high you just experienced.
Jesus saw the need to separate himself from the multitude of people at times to take a respite from not just the daily grind but from the real highs or exhausting experiences of his personal ministry for his Father. Think about the times he did that and then the times he took his closest friends (his apostles) to spend time just with them. The Sermon on the Mount was such a time of solitude and a special time with his closest friends.
In Matthew 5:1-2: “Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them.” Just before this as recorded in Matthew 4:1-2, “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted a by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.” He clearly had experienced an emotional even and was coming off that experience. The lesson here is how do we come off our highly emotional experiences?
Sometimes it is the best to seek out our trusted friends to help us after these events for emotional support and to see us through these times.
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