The night Jesus was betrayed, He was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. He took Peter, James, and John with Him, but the three men couldn’t stay awake. Multiple times Jesus found them asleep instead of watching and praying. In Mark 14:41 He said, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.” We might sympathize with the three sleepy disciples. Surely, they’d endured a long day, and their tiredness is understandable. But have you ever considered that while the disciples were too sleepy to do what was good, Judas had enough energy to betray Jesus?
Sometimes we claim to be too tired or weary to do good and righteous things, but somehow have the energy to do carnal, worldly things. Perhaps Jesus’ question, “are you still sleeping?” is an apt question for our spiritual condition.