Watch, Just One Hour!

Crushed below an unknowable despair in Gethsemane the good Lord questioned the inner core, His three most devoted - yet now preoccupied disciples:

Could you not watch with Me one hour? (Matthew 26:40)

The story is told by Alexander Benjamin Simpson:

A young lady whose parents had died while she was an infant, had been kindly cared for by a dear friend of the family. Before she was old enough to know him, he went to Europe. Regularly he wrote to her through all his years of absence, and never failed to send her money for all her wants. Finally word came that during a certain week he would return and visit her. He did not fix the day or the hour. She received several invitations to take pleasant trips with her friends during that week. One of these was of so pleasant a nature that she could not resist accepting it. During her trip, he came, inquired as to her absence, and left. Returning she found this note: "My life has been a struggle for you, might you not have waited one week for me?" More she never heard, and her life of plenty became one of want. Jesus has not fixed the day or hour of His return, but He has said, "Watch," and should He come today, would He find us absorbed in thoughtless dissipation? May we be found each day, in the expectant attitude of those watching for a loved one.

Therefore keep watch because you do not know the day or hour. (Matthew 25:13)

When the Son of Man returns will He find faith, or still His disciples pre-occupied with themselves? 

'It is a great and eternal mercy to know God's mind before you witness His deeds.' ~ Michael Cartwright

Today's Soul Snippet:

'No man is conquered until his heart is conquered.' ~ George Barlow 

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