Wednesday: Keeping Watch
The Gospel for Every Day
Each day, we slow down to align our hearts with God’s Rhythms of Grace.
This series, we examine the portrait of the Extraordinarily Ordinary Christian Life.
This week, we meditate on the theme of Keeping Watch throughout Scripture.
Today’s Scripture
The opening chapters of Revelation present a sobering vision of God’s perspective on the failures of the early churches. The words to the church in Sardis remind us that we can look awake on the outside and inwardly have fallen asleep.
Reading slowly, let God convict you by his truth and overwhelm you by his grace in Christ.
Revelation 3:1-6
3 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars.
“‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. 4 Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
Gospel Meditation
Prayerfully meditate on the Scripture you just read using the rhythm Look Up, Look In, Look Out:
Look Up: What does this reveal about God?
Look In: What does this reveal about me?
Look Out: Where is Christ leading me today?
Closing Prayer
Inspired by Matthew 26:36-45
Father,
Like the disciples keeping watch at Gethsemane,
I confess that my flesh is weak,
I need your Holy Spirit to breathe new life in me
May I keep watch with you today,
Fully awake to whatever you want to do in me and through me
In the name of Jesus, who watches over me,
Amen
