“Are you still sleeping?”

“Are you still sleeping?”

 

 

Jesus said to His three disciples (Peter, John, and James),

"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation,"

but when He saw that they were extremely tired and still asleep,

He asked, "Are you still sleeping?"

(Matthew 26:41, 45, Korean Modern Bible).

At this time, when the end of all things is near,

 we must remain alert, sober,

and pray so that we do not fall into temptation

(Ref.: Matthew 26:41; 1 Peter 4:7).

Are we, perhaps, still "sleeping"?

(Ref.: Matthew 26:45, Korean Modern Bible)

Or, are we, perhaps, already in temptation,

crying out to God in the midst of a crisis,

like the prophet Jonah, who was "deeply asleep"?

(Ref.: Jonah 1:5, Korean Modern Bible)