Unlike some of our idealistic views of reality, Jesus knows that eventually all of us will be “caught out” by temptation. Like us, three of Jesus’ closest companions - Peter, James and John - got completely caught out the night of their leaders' arrest in the garden of Gethsemane. Like Peter, James and John, we need to be alert to the reality that our strength of spirit and bold intentions (“everything is awesome”!) can be exactly what blinds us to just how weak our flesh is.

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Matt 5: 40-41
40 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?
41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”