One hour. 60 minutes. One 24th of a day. We cherish it when it comes to sleep time. We become anxious if we have to wait that long. And often we waste it on things like TV, social media…even worry as we pace the bedroom floor in the moonlight.
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Matthew 6:26
Jesus asked the question. How do we answer? If worrying doesn’t consume your time, substitute another phrase – by being proud, by being angry, by being revengeful, unforgiving, caught up in a video game, vegged out on Netflix…yep, I am stepping on my toes, too.
Yes, we all need down time, but during that time can we spare an hour of talking, reading and listening time with our Lord?
Tonight, Jesus will face his fate with blood sweat and tears. He will kneel face down in the dirt 
among the scraggly olive trees and cry out to His Father. And His disciples? Snoozing. He’d asked them to stay awake and pray for one hour.
Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter (Matthew 24:6).
They didn’t, and when the soldiers came, they fled. They didn’t have the strength to stand and stay because they hadn’t been bolstered by God-time.
Are we any different?
Will you carve out an hour today, or tomorrow on Good Friday, to reflect (and thankfully praise God) over what Jesus did for you?
Where Did You Find God Today? 
Thank you for this reminder, Julie. I hope you don’t mind, I’ve made copies of your post and will be distributing it at our GriefShare tonight. My ladies have been keeping a note pad on what they are thankful for. That’s right, in the midst of their grief, what better way for God to begin their healing process than to ponder the things, while boggled in grief, that they are thankful for. God instructs to come before His presence with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise…and that’s what being bolstered by God-time is–Courage, strength, and healing!
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