Prior to His arrest, Jesus was praying to God, while Peter, tired, was sleeping!

The story of Jesus, just prior to His arrest and trial, is illustrative, how the believer must push the body to perform its normal limits of endurance for the sake of being prepared to accomplish God's plan in our life.

Indeed, Jesus scolded Peter that he should be alert rather than yield to his bodily want for rest.

But for the human being to accomplish great things for the sake of principle and right, we all must maintain a steadfast readiness.  It was Abraham Lincoln, who sensing the great need to preserve the Union during the Civil War, he stood for the just cause that won out in the end.

We must push our bodies to perform to the utmost for the sake of justice, freedom and religious rectitude. At this Easter season, let us rededicate ourselves to God's will in our lives.