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Pembacaan Alkitab: Matuius 26

Ketika Yesus berdoa di taman Getsemani, murid-murid-Nya yang ikut bersama-Nya tertidur walaupun Tuhan Yesus meminta mereka untuk berjaga-jaga bersama Tuhan Yesus. Kemudian Yesus menegur mereka dan berkata agar mereka berjaga-jaga dan berdoa agar mereka jangan jatuh ke dalam pencobaan. Seringkali kita juga berlaku demikian. Kita mungkin ada dekat dengan Yesus, yakni kita pergi ke gereja, bersekutu dengan rajin dan tekun. Tetapi semua itu hanyalah sekedar mengikuti saja, tetapi kita sendiri tidak membangun hubungan pribadi dengan Tuhan. Dan biasanya kita berasa bahwa kita dekat dengan Tuhan karena kita selalu rajin ke gereja dan bahkan melayani. Padahal kita jarang berdoa, kita jarang berkomunikasi dengan Tuhan dan hanya melakukan hal yang kelihatan saja. Tetapi sekarang Tuhan juga menegur kita, agar kita berjaga-jaga dan berdoa. Jadi, biarlah kita rajin berdoa, berkomunikasi dengan Tuhan dan membangun hubungan dengan Tuhan. Ingatlah bahwa berkomunikasi berarti dua arah dan perlu ada saat di mana kita berdiam diri dan mendengarkan Tuhan berbicara dengan kita, baik melalui bisikan Roh Kudus, melalui Firman-Nya ataupun hal-hal lainnya. Dan biarlah kita berjaga-jaga agar kehidupan rohani kita tidak tertidur, agar kita tidak seperti para murid-Nya yang secara tubuh ada di sana, tetapi secara pikiran dan roh mereka sedang berleha-leha. Jadi, biarlah teguran Yesus bagi murid-murid-Nya juga kita ambil untuk mengingatkan kita agar kita juga jangan tertidur secara rohani, tetapi berjaga-jaga dan berdoa.

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Bible Reading: Mathew 26

When Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, His disciples who were with Him fell asleep even though the Lord Jesus has asked them to stay and watch with Him. Then Jesus rebuked them and said to them so that they would watch and pray, so that they would not enter into temptation. Many times we do the same. We may be close with Jesus, in respect to going to church and fellowship diligently. But all that are only just to follow, but ourselves are not building our own relationship with the Lord. And usually we feel close to God because we never misses church and even minister. While we might rarely pray, we rarely communicate with the Lord and only do what can be seen. But now the Lord is also rebuking us, so that we would watch and pray. So, let us be diligent in prayer as well, communicate with the Lord and build a relationship with the Lord. Remember that communication is two ways and there is a need for a time when we stay put and listen to the Lord speaks to us through the whisper of Holy Spirit or through His Words or other means. And let us be on watch and do not let our spiritual life go asleep, so that we would not be like His disciples who were with Him physically, but in terms of spirit and thoughts they are asleep. So, let the rebuke of Jesus to His disciples be taken to remind us, so that we would not fall asleep spiritually but be on watch and pray.