I had a nice chat with Aunty Ruth last night.
Sometimes when we walking on the path of following Jesus, we may like Peter and two sons of Zebedee(Matthew 26:36 -46), the spirit is willing but the body is weak, and they fell into the temptation- fall asleep, well, it could be other temptations. From this passage, Jesus Christ said to them to keep watch with him, yet they still fell into sleep. Jesus reminded them for few times to keep watch, He talked to them face to face! Yet they still fail to do so. Not Jesus tell you this too? Brothers and sisters...There is another passage indicating 'keep watch' too in book of Matthew, which is in Matthew 25:1-13, The Parable of Ten Virgins.
She reminded me that evil will not only attack us by our laziness, jealousy, pride, and others; but evil will also attack us by aiming on our kindness, generousity, and our soft hearts. They will find wayssssss to knock us down, find holes to pull us away from God. I was immediately awaken by what she shared with me. It opened my eyes as I saw the dangerous of what we are not aware of, and what we do not pay attention at all. All the while what we think is ok, but it is not ok at all; all the while, we thought we could get rid of it, but we couldn't.
'Yes' and 'No', is easy to say, but hard to decide. Beware! Yes is yes, no is no; do not make yourself to stand in the middle of yes and no. If you are not in the light, you are in the darkness, there is no grey spot! God is just and righteous. Do not compromise with the grey spot. Even small mistake, we should be aware of it to spread. It is like the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees (Matthew 16:5), just a small yeast that will work all through the dough. To be like a yeast for the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 13:33) is pleasing the eyes of God, but do not be the yeast or beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees that putting in your 'dough'.
I hope this sharing will benefit you as well. If Jesus comes back tomorrow (well, just a 'if'), are you ready to meet Him? Yes? Are you sure? No?... when will you be ready then? Now? Today? Tomorrow? Another tomorrow?...
Jesus answered:'Watch out that no one deceives you...' ~
Matthew 24: 4
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour'~
Matthew 25:13
Then he said to them, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of dealth. Stay here and keep watch with me."~
Matthew 26:38
"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."~
Matthew 26:41
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it."~
Genesis 4:7
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