WATCHING
“What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.’
What is the sort of life to which Christ here calls us?
I. A wakeful life.—There may be sleeping souls in wakeful bodies. Sleep is unconsciousness. Many live long hours unconscious of God, the soul, and eternity. Sleep is inactivity. How many are alert and active in the exercise of their permitted and commanded communication with God Himself? The wakeful life is
(a) A sober life, Watch, and be sober.
(b) A prayerful life, Watch and pray.
(c) A life of companionship with Christ, Watch with Me.
II. That great word ‘all.’— All the disciples needed it that dreadful night. The life of the Acts of the Apostles is a life of perpetual, of unsleeping watching. Difficult to the young; the busy; to the intellectual; to the sorrowful.
(a) Let us have special moments of spiritual watchfulness.
(b) Let us knit them together by lifting up the heart between time in briefer callings in of grace.