“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing,
but the flesh is weak.”
but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 26:41 (NIV)
A woman loved her Lord so much that she wasted her money expressing her love for Him.
Judas loved money so much that he wasted his life by selling our Lord.
These two seem to be extremes at the opposite ends of a spectrum, very few of us would take either action and so we wonder at the application to our lives.
But the account of Peter in the garden and in the High Priest’s courtyard is very applicable to all of our lives. We celebrate the Lord’s supper in our local church, we sing a hymn together and walk out into the darkness, oblivious to our future, comfortable in the knowledge that our Lord is with us. We ignore His warnings to pray - we just can’t drum up the zeal to pray that we will not fall - a crisis erupts, our little world is shaken up and we fall, and then we weep bitterly.
This seems all too familiar to me!
Our Lord tells us what to do to prevent this cycle - watch and pray.
Our Lord tells us why- because although our spirit is willing (Christ in us)
our flesh is weak (our sin nature) and needs watching over and praying over.
Watch and Pray!
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