Watching With Jesus
Stay here and watch with Me —Matthew 26:38
Watch with Me.” Jesus was saying, in
effect, “Watch with no private point of view at all, but watch solely and
entirely with Me.” In the early stages of our Christian life, we do not watch with Jesus,
we watch for Him. We do not watch with Him through the
revealed truth of the Bible even in the circumstances of our own lives. Our
Lord is trying to introduce us to identification with Himself through a
particular “Gethsemane” experience of our own. But we refuse to go, saying,
“No, Lord, I can’t see the meaning of this, and besides, it’s very painful.”
And how can we possibly watch with Someone who is so incomprehensible? How are
we going to understand Jesus sufficiently to watch with Him in His Gethsemane,
when we don’t even know why He is suffering? We don’t know how to watch with
Him— we are only used to the idea of Jesus watching with us.
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