NOVEMBER 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

 NOVEMBER 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, my Savior, the One who died for my sin and clothed me in His Righteousness that even though I am guilty and vile, by Your Precious Blood I am washed clean of my iniquities and stand blameless before the Father. 

Lord Jesus, why You would choose to suffer on that cruel cross for a worm such as I is beyond my mortal comprehension but then Your ways are higher than my ways and Your thoughts higher than my thoughts for which I am grateful that You have promised to never leave me nor forsake me — 

I pray to be centered in Your Will and always in Your Word, forgive me for my daily shortcomings and keep me safe and secure on the Rock!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus now has two days left before He must endure the cross as the Passover Lamb and having just announced that He will be “delivered up” by the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders “to be crucified” at the Passover,  Jesus is now giving other signs that His Death and Burial is imminent as Matthew records in his Gospel that “…when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.” (Matthew 26:6-7) 

There is in this passage about a woman coming to Jesus a Lesson for our modern day society if we study the reactions of those that observed the woman pouring the oil on His head. Matthew records, “But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant…” (Matthew 26:8) !!! If we look at our modern society today we can see that “indignation” is the reaction of those that have supported taking God out of our government against those that are calling for our society to return to honoring God; for never in the history of this great nation of America has Jesus and His followers been so persecuted and our laws so blatantly anti-God! 

When I observe those that are so adamant about removing God entirely from our schools and government, their calling for the “separation of church and state”, and their attitude toward those that would dare oppose them, their attitude can only be described as “indignant”!!! Jesus corrected those that opposed the woman and her actions toward Him as He explained her motive: “For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial.” (Matthew 26:12) 

So just after Jesus tells His followers that He “will be delivered up to be crucified” He then goes to Bethany and is there anointed with “fragrant oil for [His] burial” and yet it seems like His disciples have “ears that cannot hear and eyes that cannot see” and that is exactly the same case as our modern society having the record of His Death, Burial, and Resurrection but we still refuse to see the Truth that God has given the world His Only Begotten Son as an Acceptable Sacrifice for the Remission of Sin as we blindly refuse to step into the Light from the darkness of this world in which we are told by our “chief priests, scribes, and elders” {collectively the modern American government} that Jesus deserves to be “crucified” and removed from our society altogether!!! 

The series of events that take place in these next two days before Jesus submits His Innocence to the cross for the sins of the guilty, is of eternal consequence so let us study carefully each event so that we can understand that Jesus has died on the Cross and defeated Death and the Grave for ALL sinners and we can better understand His next Spiritual Question, “What! Could you not watch with Me for one hour?” (Matthew 26:40) Personally this scripture tells me to “WAKE UP” and join Jesus in praying for our lost and dying world that is blinded by the darkness of sin and evil!!!