Jesus In The Garden
Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” (Matthew 26:38-39) Meditation Before I was saved, I had this picture in my head of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, all calm and serene, without a care in the world. There are even portraits painted of this very scene. However, being fully God and fully man he knew everything that was going to happen to him. The painful beating, scourging, and crucifixion he was going to suffer through were terrible enough. His anguish was from knowing of the separation from the Father he would have to withstand while he was on the cross. He knew, when the Father placed our sins upon his shoulders, he would become sin, and could not be in communion with the Father. He had NEVER, on earth or in heaven, not bee...