Moment of Meditation: Willing Spirit, Weak Flesh (Matthew 26:40-41)
''Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." (Matthew 26:40-41)''
Three times Jesus prayed. Three times He came back to find the disciples sleeping. Their spirits were willing, but their flesh was weak.
The spirit is willing because it is being willed by the Holy Spirit. We want to worship God. We remember His words to the Samaritan woman: "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and in truth" (John 4:24).
The spirit is always willing to worship. But religion seems such a fleshly thing. Therefore we have many in our lives today who are "spiritual, but not religious." And that cannot be.
Religion is the expression of the Spirit. Especially as the Spirit is revealed in the proclamation of God's holy Word. The Word that is the basis for religion. The revealed religion of the Son of God who gave Himself for your sin. Amen.
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