In the Garden With Jesus - a Lent Journey for TeensSample

Why are you sleeping?

Why do we sleep?

We sleep because we have to. If we didn’t sleep, we would lose our minds. Through sleep, we process everything that has happened to us, store important information in our memories, come up with creative solutions – and above all we rest. We physically recharge. Physical (visible) and inner (invisible) sleep is intertwined with each other. But just as important as it is to sleep, it is important to be awake.

Have you ever woken up and found yourself in the twilight zone? Where am I now? What is happening? What day is it? Many of us go through life with such an awareness. We aren’t aware of who we are, where we are, what is happening within us, and most of all – we are not aware of Jesus working in our lives.(Don’t sleepwalk through life – 1 Thes 5). And so, our lives pass us by and we aren’t really living.

What has caused you to fall asleep? What has kidnapped your thoughts, and awareness and taken you away from experiencing God daily?

For Jesus’ friends, it was grief and the worries of this life. Creating possible scenarios in our head of everything that can go wrong, immobilises us from truly experiencing God and rocks us to sleep.

Exercise:

Ask Holy Spirit to make you aware of where you have started sleep-walking through life.

Prayer:

God, I ask for a deep awareness of Your love for me and Your work in me.