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Gethsemane: God Gets Me

 


In Gethsemane God Gets Me. It was there our God and Savior felt the pressure, the desire to avoid pain and death that dominates our lives, It is there beneath the Olive Trees Jesus proved to be the one who can intercede  for us. For there he faced The Cup he almost refuse, “And having gone forward a little, He fell upon His face, praying, and saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will” (Matthew 26:39)


Our Lord did not give in, He stood firm, but the fact he uttered those words, “if it is possible let this cup pass,” shows He knows what crushes us in life, why we want to avoid suffering and death; He understands us. This is what makes Jesus the only God who can fellowship our suffering. All the other false gods sit on their dais’ in judgement and expectation of fealty, while the Only True God who sits on the throne next to His (God) Father is marked with scars and has experianced the terrors and woes of this world; He thus gets us, knowing why we stumble, struggle, and shirk in suffering; He himself facing that same struggle in Gethsemane. 


This is the God we love, a God who gets us, has suffered like us, and who felt the fears that plague us, echoing them in the words, “if it is possible let this cup pass from me,” that cup in the Sedar or Passover is called Suffering/ Salvation, it is the third cup drunk; and thankfully Jesus did not resist it but said, “but let your Will be done not mine,” going to the cross to die for all our sins and rising from the dead. 


It behooves us as Christians to do the same when facing similar cups, and say “Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It Is In Heaven.” (Matthew 6:9, KJV) I am not saying we won’t agonize or want to give in, saying “let this cup pass from me.” But we have inspiration, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ choose The Father’s Will over the fear and pain’s influence. Let us pray we can face our own Gethsenames and drink the cup with The Holy Spirit’s help, seeing that God is up to something even in the dark gardens (moments, periods) of our lives. Amen. 


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