And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? – Jesus (Matthew 26:40)
How did Jesus handle the failures of his disciples? Sometimes with chiding and other times with teaching but always with mercy, grace, and understanding.
We see Jesus on his worst day needing his friends — but they just weren’t there for him. Far from rejecting them, he understood and later sent them out to change the world!
We fail, too. We fall asleep when we should be alert, we mess things up and sometimes do short-term damage to his causes, yet he understands. He sometimes chides our conscience, other times he sends us to relearn a lesson or two, but through it all he is tender, kind and understanding.
Like with his first disciples, he knows our failures are not final – he has his purposes for us, still.
What lessons have you learned of the tenderness of Christ for our failures?
– fritz@langgang.com
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