The Spirit is Willing but....

Then He came and found them sleeping. "Simon, are you sleeping?" He asked Peter, "Couldn't you stay awake for one hour? Stay awake and pray so that you won't enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." Mark 14:37,38

Jesus told us why we should pray: the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. I know people who cannot pray unless they walk. I must admit I pray my best prayers when walking. It is as if my flesh is doing what my spirit is doing, walking.

Tonight we heard a message about 4 stages or groups of friends: those we should move on from; those we should move to; looking to keep passion and therefore finding friends of passion and finally after finding passion staying alive in passion.

I had an opportunity to tell a dear friend why I did not want to go to her connect group anymore. I said: I am passionate about God and souls and have no time to listen to people who have given up their freedom because of laziness. Hard words but she received them because she was feeling the same.

I am in a war and fighting on many fronts I cannot sit with those who have left the war and listen to their complaints. I need people of fire around me.

Jesus wanted his disciples to understand the coming battle, yet they had given themselves up to the flesh and were deaf the their impending trial. Many people I know are unable to see the train coming because they have constructed a house on the tracks and think that because their house is comfortable that is enough. It isn't! The enemy of their soul is plotting their destruction, creating their prison cells and seducing them into entering a cage that they may not leave.

Remember Neo in the Matrix? He had to discover he was living a deceived life. He was being bled dry of life and made to believe he was really living. He hated the truth but it eventually set him free.

The trouble for the Christian is that they have been set free but give it up for a 'bowl of porridge'.

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