When they came to arrest Jesus, His disciples scattered. Only a little while before, He’d told them to watch and pray. One young man was still following Him with only a linen cloth wrapped around him. When the men grabbed him, he slipped out of the cloth and ran. He got away from the men, and now he was running into the night, away from Jesus, with nothing to cover him. When a verse in the Bible gets hold of us, we can slip away in a hurry too. We can shut the book, find something to keep us busy, and by supper we may have forgotten the verse altogether. What it showed us is still there. Sometimes the fight is right there at the kitchen table, in that moment when we’d rather close the Bible. That’s when those words from the garden come back to us. “Watch and pray.” We can leave the Bible open, read the verse again, and ask the Lord to help us face what He just showed us.
“And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.” —Mark 14:52
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