Tell Him

I've been staying in Grace garden in Anaheim, CA as a short-term trainee for the spring break. The schedule is very tight and intense, but I believe it's worth spending my whole week here. During my stay here so far, I was encouraged again and again to read the Bible and the ministry that opens up the Bible to learn the truth in a deeper and a higher way. I'm posting this just because I have a spare moment by chance.


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Mark 6:27-31
And immediately the king sent a guard and ordered him to bring his head. And he went out and beheaded him in the prison, And brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the girl, and the girl have it to her mother. And when his disciples heard about it, they came and took his corpse and pout it in a tomb. And the apostles gathered together to Jesus and reported to Him all that they did and all that they taught. And He said to them, Come by yourselves privately to a deserted place and rest a while. For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have opportunity to eat.

Matthew 14:12-13
And his disciples came and took the corpse and buried it; and they came and reported the matter to Jesus. And when Jesus heard this, He withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place privately.


There's nothing that's too small for the Lord to listen to. He is willing to listen to everything. He is there waiting to listen us. When the disciples' teacher, John was killed, how could they not be brokenhearted? These are the times when we should draw near to the Lord. He will not rebuke us as being too worldly, too affectionate, or too attached to our dead ones. He knows our emotion, and He sympathizes with our heart. To sympathize means that one can rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn. We should bury the corpse, like the disciples of John did, and go and tell the Lord. One can only be drawn closer to the Lord through telling Him everything. Lord is the one to whom we can pour out our heart.

What did the Lord do after He heard His disciples? He said, "Come by yourselves privately to a deserted place and rest a while." Our Lord did not merely tell the disciples to go to the deserted place to rest; He told them to go with Him. The Lord's presence gave them sweet rest and renewed their strength.  

He is the Lord to whom we can tell everything. Since we have such a Lord, why not tell Him all the secrets of our hearts?


Watchman Nee, "Tell Him." The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, 18(34), 1992.