Jesus has tremendous success in Capernaum, healing many and delivering many from spiritual oppression. The next morning He goes to pray and be alone with the Father. Peter seeks Him out to tell Jesus He is a rock star, people are seeking for Him. Jesus' response is we have to move on to the other towns, that is the reason I came out. We have two temptations, to stay where we find success and to keep doing what has worked. Jesus provides a different path, follow where God leads. Paul says he has been entrusted a stewardship for preaching the Gospel and, therefore, there is no particular reward for doing so. What have you been called to do? We get impatient or we get enamored with success, however, and we take matters into our own hand when the Lord has promised us something and in that we make a mess of things. Isaiah says you wait upon the Lord and wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. Jesus didn't strike while the iron was hot, He waited on the Father to tell Him the next steps. So should we.
