Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Christ does not scold them to despair but to self-awareness: your own danger is urgent, and temptation will swallow you up if you do not watch and pray. Resistance comes not from trusting your own strength but from asking the Lord for arms and strength, your watching without prayer avails nothing. You have the will to do right, yet you must contend with the weakness of the flesh; prayer is never unnecessary.
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Christ prays that if His sufferings cannot be avoided, if they are bound up in God's decrees and the covenant of grace, then He submits wholly to His Father's will. He desires to drink that bitter cup rather than turn from what the glory of God and the salvation of His people require, though it wars against His human nature.
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The trials ahead will test whether you deny Him. Your mind may be willing and your faith strong now, but the flesh shrinks at danger and will lead you astray when the hour comes. Human nature is weak; seek strength from on high, lest you fall when temptation overwhelms you.
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