SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 six years
Stay here and watch with Me —Matthew 26:38 “Watch with Me.” Jesus was saying, in effect, “Watch with no private point of view at all, but watch solely and entirely with Me.” In the early stages of our Christian life, we do not watch with Jesus, we watch for Him. We do not watch with Him through the revealed truth of the Bible even in the circumstances of our own lives. Our Lord is trying to introduce us to identification with Himself through a particular “Gethsemane” experience of our own. But we refuse to go, saying, “No, Lord, I can’t see the meaning of this, and besides, it’s very painful.” And how can we possibly watch with Someone who is so incomprehensible?” Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, September 5. Last week, I met the family of a new patient, their twenty-something son worked on a drilling rig and a wayward chain landed him in a hospital bed. Kathie housemates were an author, mechanic, cowboy, musician, bus driver, salesman and now rig worker, their lives c...