34 “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”
37 Each day Jesus was teaching at the temple, and each evening he went out to spend the night on the hill called the Mount of Olives,
What does it mean to be watchful? Keep a constant watch for the return of Jesus. Christ is coming again. You need to be watchful and spiritually fit. Do not be dulled by carelessness and business. Keep God first in your life.