Titled "Alone With God", and accompanied by John 6:3, "And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples", Tozer writes:
"There are some things that you and I will never learn when others are present.. There is much we can learn when we come together on Sundays and sit among the saints. But there are certain things that you and I will never learn in the presence of other people.
Unquestionably, part of our failure today is religious activity that is not preceded by aloneness, by inactivity. I mean getting alone with God and waiting in silence and quietness until we are charged with God’s Spirit. Then, when we act, our activity really amounts to something because we have been prepared by God for it….
Now, in the case of our Lord, the people came to Him, John reports, and He was ready for them. He had been quiet and silent…. Looking upward, He waited until the whole hiatus of divine life moved down from the throne of God into His own soul."
I was exhorted by the above words from Tozer that we do well to follow our Lord's example, just as we do in any other characteristic or way of life. At work, I don't just act on my own, I sometimes need the undivided attention of my boss to explain what the next steps are in a task.
How much more do I need to hear from the One Who I proclaim to be my Lord and my Master, to hear what His direction is for my daily tasks and steps?
He is the Lord, and we're the disciples; as such, we're supposed to emulate Him - even more than acting like Him, we should BE like Him, through and through, in every facet of our existence.
Our Lord's example was that He, being fully LORD and man, found it necessary and fulfilling to be alone and quiet with His Father. Then in this passage, the disciples needed to be alone with Him.
Let's be sure to not miss out on that blessed preparation that can only come if we're willing to be still and know that He is our God (Psalm 46:10).