Monday, September 5, 2016

"Watch with Me."[ Matthew 26:40].

    Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping; and He said to Peter, " so you could not stay awake with me one hour? "Watch with me"- with no private point of view of your own at all, but watch with me. In the early stages we don't watch with Jesus, we watch for him. We do not watch with him through the revelation of the Bible, in the circumstances of our lives. Our Lord is trying to introduce us to identification with himself in a particular Gethsemane, and we will  not go; we say-"No, Lord, I can not see the meaning of this, it is bitter."  How can we possibly watch with someone who is inscrutable? How are we to understand Jesus sufficiently, to watch with him in His Gethsemane,
 When we do not know what his suffering is for? We do not know how to watch with him; we are only used to the idea of Jesus watching with us.
 The disciples loved Jesus Christ "to the limit of their natural capacity, but they did not understand what He was After.In the "Garden of Gethsemane" they slept for their own sorrow, and at the end of three years of  the closest intimacy they all " forsook him and fled."
  They were all filled with the Holy Spirit,"- the same "they," but something wonderful happened in between-Our Lords Death and Resurrection and Ascension; and the disciples have been invaded by the Holy Spirit- "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you," and this meant that they learned to watch with Him all the rest of their lives.      
                                     

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