Luke 22:39-46
Perhaps you have seen over tired children have an emotional meltdown. It is not a pretty sight. All they will do is stand there and cry. If you ask them what is wrong they just cry and say, “I don’t know.” If you tell them that it is time to go to bed they will say through their tears, “But I’m not tired.” It is then that parental psychology along with great patience kicks in. As adults, we are just grown up children. We have learned how to manage the pressures of life by implementing what we have learned as children. God has designed the human body to respond to life’s pressures in various ways. The disciples of Jesus were no different. They were emotionally and mentally worn out with sorrow over Jesus coming death (45). Their natural response was to sleep to gain the strength to deal with the upcoming problem. Yet Jesus challenged them not to respond to life’s problems by not doing the first natural thing. In verse 46 He asked “Why are you sleeping?” Jesus wanted the disciples to know the power found in prayer to deal with the pressures. The temptation is to do what is natural. For a child it is stand there and cry. For the disciples it was sleep. When we pray we do what is unnatural to our human sensibilities. When we pray we find God strengthening us so we do not give into temptation of believing that God is incapable of working in the situation. Through prayer we can find God’s strength to stand under the pressures of life’s problems. Jesus showed the disciples the importance of responding on a spiritual level and gain God’s strength for life’s problems. Likewise, we need to do what is unnatural and pray for God’s strength rather than cry about the problem or trying to sleep off the problem.
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Perhaps you have seen over tired children have an emotional meltdown. It is not a pretty sight. All they will do is stand there and cry. If you ask them what is wrong they just cry and say, “I don’t know.” If you tell them that it is time to go to bed they will say through their tears, “But I’m not tired.” It is then that parental psychology along with great patience kicks in. As adults, we are just grown up children. We have learned how to manage the pressures of life by implementing what we have learned as children. God has designed the human body to respond to life’s pressures in various ways. The disciples of Jesus were no different. They were emotionally and mentally worn out with sorrow over Jesus coming death (45). Their natural response was to sleep to gain the strength to deal with the upcoming problem. Yet Jesus challenged them not to respond to life’s problems by not doing the first natural thing. In verse 46 He asked “Why are you sleeping?” Jesus wanted the disciples to know the power found in prayer to deal with the pressures. The temptation is to do what is natural. For a child it is stand there and cry. For the disciples it was sleep. When we pray we do what is unnatural to our human sensibilities. When we pray we find God strengthening us so we do not give into temptation of believing that God is incapable of working in the situation. Through prayer we can find God’s strength to stand under the pressures of life’s problems. Jesus showed the disciples the importance of responding on a spiritual level and gain God’s strength for life’s problems. Likewise, we need to do what is unnatural and pray for God’s strength rather than cry about the problem or trying to sleep off the problem.
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