You may have heard the saying “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” It’s a catchy phrase. As people who follow in Jesus’ footsteps, the saying might go a little differently. How would you rewrite it? When Jesus’ ministry really got tough, he called His most trusted friends to come away with Him and pray. Who would you invite to go with you to the Garden of Gethsemane?
He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”—Matthew 26:37-38
Prayer: Jesus, Your calling friends to come alongside You when You were troubled reminds us that we aren’t called to do life on our own. When the going gets tough, remind us to call out to the Father and to call our trusted friends to pray with us. In Your name we pray, amen.
