Is There Anything In Your Life Worth Repeating in Prayer?

Today’s reading is Matthew 26.

Have you ever noticed that after Matthew records that one sentence prayer of Jesus’s in Gethsemane, that when Jesus finds His disciples sleeping He says, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?” Matthew merely recorded a summary of Jesus’s prayer. For about an hour Jesus prayed. No doubt He used different words and phrases, approaching the request from different directions and different emphases. But after praying for about an hour, it could be summed up in one sentence. This always leaves me with the question, is there anything in my life that I view as so important I might spend an entire hour just praying about that one thing? Or am I merely satisfied rolling off a sentence of prayer and moving on with my day? What about you?

Tomorrow’s reading is Matthew 27.