{"id":2680,"date":"2023-09-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myutmostforprd.wpenginepowered.com\/modern-classic\/keeping-watch\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:31:36","slug":"%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%b1%d0%bb%d1%8e%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b5","status":"publish","type":"modern-classic","link":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/modern-classic\/keeping-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u041d\u0435\u043e\u0442\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u043d\u0430\u0431\u043b\u044e\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Jesus says, \u201cWatch with me,\u201d he is telling us to watch with no private point of view at all. In the early stages of our life with him, we do not watch with Jesus; we watch for<\/em> him and expect him to watch with us. It takes us time to begin to view everything that happens in the way our Lord views it\u2014through the revelation of the Bible.<\/p>\n

Jesus asked his disciples to watch with him in the garden of Gethsemane, when peril was close at hand. In the same way, he comes to us, in some present-day Gethsemane where his honor is at stake, and says, \u201cWatch with me.\u201d He does this to teach us to identify ourselves with him and to see things from his perspective. But we will not. We say, \u201cNo, Lord. I can\u2019t see the meaning of this. It\u2019s too awful.\u201d<\/p>\n

If we don\u2019t understand our Lord, if we don\u2019t even know what his suffering is for, how can we ever watch with him? The disciples loved Jesus to the limits of their natural capacity, but they didn\u2019t understand what he was after; they couldn\u2019t grasp why his goal was to go to his death. In the garden of Gethsemane, they allowed themselves to be consumed by their own sorrow, and they fell asleep instead of keeping watch. At the end of three years of the closest intimacy with their Lord, \u201call the disciples deserted him and fled\u201d (Matthew 26:56).<\/p>\n

And yet, the disciples did eventually learn to watch with Jesus. How? After Gethsemane, a series of wonderful things happened. Our Lord died, was resurrected, and ascended into heaven; he sent the Holy Spirit, telling his disciples, \u201cYou will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you\u201d (Acts 1:8). This is how the disciples were changed. On the day of Pentecost, \u201call of them were filled with the Holy Spirit\u201d (2:4), and they learned to watch with Jesus for the rest of their lives.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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