TUESDAY 12th/ MARCH OF LENT
“My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.”
(Psalm 22:2 NIV11-GKE)
“Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”
(Matthew 26,38 NIV11-GKE)
Last Sunday, I shared Jesus’ agony before the Cross. In that place of agony, we see Jesus’ humanity fully; he was just like us in every sense. In that place of anguish and sorrow, he tells his Father of the condition of his heart.
This Psalm points to Jesus and expresses what Jesus felt. In the Gospel, we see that Jesus asked his disciples to pray with him.
I find it so challenging that Jesus asked his disciples to pray with him, yet the harsh reality is that they didn’t persevere and fell into temptation.
I wonder how many times I have missed the opportunity of Jesus wanting to pray with me. These words from the Psalm and the Gospel of Matthew are the invitation to join Jesus in prayer.
You are the God who disrupts our lives with an invitation. During this season of Lent, may we stop and may we start again: may we stop our strivings marked by greed and anxiety, and may we start again the work of compassion and generosity. Amen.1
- Walter Brueggemann, A Way Other Than Our Own, Accordance electronic ed. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2017), 11. ↩︎
D.L. 
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