“The Crossover”
In the book of Mark Jesus does an interesting thing.
Mark 4:35 “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd they took Him along with them in the boat, just as He was: and other boats were with Him. So I guess we can imagine that the crowd was bothering not only Him but the disciples, I would suppose there was much activity and stress and all the things that go on when there is a large gathering of people. In Mark 6:31 He repeats this somewhat when He says, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while. For there were many people coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat. They went away in the boat to a secluded place by themselves.”
We know some about how the brain works. We have a left side or hemisphere where we reason on things and problems, it is the linear side, logic, intellect, and reason dwell there and then there is the right side of our brain or the right hemisphere where the creative side, intuitive sides, emotional side as it is and also where we hear the voice of God. What is interesting is the next scripture on crossing over to the other side. Matthew 14:22 “Immediately He made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of Him to the other side, while He sent the crowds away. Verse 24 now speaks of the problem of the crossover. “But the boat was already a long distance from the land, battered by the waves, for the wind was contrary.” The minute you leave the left brain where all the logic is and try to cross over to the right brain the fight starts. The winds pick up, “What are you doing?” Where are we headed? Logic has to be in control. It has to know everything. Why are we doing this? This doesn’t make sense. Why would you leave a perfectly good place and cross over to another place that is unknown. The good news is in verse 25 is that He met them in the middle and verse 32 “When He got into the boat the wind stopped.” Another passage states that they immediately went to the other side.
Here are some more scriptures that take you over, or take you into a better place. Deut. 12:10 “When you cross the Jordan and live the land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security.” He doesn’t say if you cross the Jordan He says when you cross it. Isaiah 55:1 “Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters, and you who have no money come buy, and eat.” Come buy wine and milk, without money and without cost. This is a crossover scripture. You come to the waters, the river of life. Matthew 11:28 “Come to Me, all you who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Now we have two choices with what was just said. We can read it and logic it, intellectualize it, discuss it further or we could practice what Jesus was saying. Change only comes about in the right brain through experience. If you don’t experience it nothing much happens. So we take a pen in hand like the ready writer in Psalm 45:1 “My heart overflows with a good theme, I address my verses to the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.” We first of all write the scripture that says “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while. They went away in the boat to a secluded place by themselves.” Now as you write with your hand your left brain is occupied with writing (it is distracted from reasoning) and low and behold the right brain is free to picture this as you write. So you Come away, to a secluded place, and rest, in the boat, you are crossing over to the other side by themselves. Now you ask the right brain an emotional question. What does it feel like to cross over into this place? Try it out.