Today's Verse - Matthew 26:41 (NIV):
Jesus said, “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
These were Jesus' words in the garden at Gethsemane, after He found His disciples sleeping. Jesus was asking them to be watchful, because temptation would come and prayer would be needed to avoid it. Perhaps He was also urging that they should not allow themselves in the hours to come to be vanquished or defeated by the events which were to come. It was a warning that, although the disciples were willing to die with Jesus, their intentions would be, as in the case of Peter's denial of Jesus in the courtyard, overcome by their own physical weakness and that they would yield to the temptation of running away, as they did when they went into hiding.
Today's Comments: Jesus exhorted His disciples to be better, after they could not stay awake with Him during even one hour of prayer. Like them, sometimes our efforts to "stay awake" in Christ are meager. Like the disciples were urged, we need to be spiritually vigilant. We must be constant in prayer and ask the Father that we not allow ourselves to be led into temptation, but that we be delivered from evil. Instead of falling asleep during the watch, we must learn to stay awake at the helm.
Jesus said, “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
These were Jesus' words in the garden at Gethsemane, after He found His disciples sleeping. Jesus was asking them to be watchful, because temptation would come and prayer would be needed to avoid it. Perhaps He was also urging that they should not allow themselves in the hours to come to be vanquished or defeated by the events which were to come. It was a warning that, although the disciples were willing to die with Jesus, their intentions would be, as in the case of Peter's denial of Jesus in the courtyard, overcome by their own physical weakness and that they would yield to the temptation of running away, as they did when they went into hiding.
Today's Comments: Jesus exhorted His disciples to be better, after they could not stay awake with Him during even one hour of prayer. Like them, sometimes our efforts to "stay awake" in Christ are meager. Like the disciples were urged, we need to be spiritually vigilant. We must be constant in prayer and ask the Father that we not allow ourselves to be led into temptation, but that we be delivered from evil. Instead of falling asleep during the watch, we must learn to stay awake at the helm.
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