I've had a lot of physical pain in my life. Granted, I do have a very high tolerance for pain so often I can continue functioning with it while some might have to go to bed with the same level. Honestly, too, I don't think of agony in a physical sense.
When I think of true agony, I think of it mentally. Agony to me hurts the heart to the core. Yes, to the very core. I can tell you that I've had those times too and were it not for my spiritual relationship with my heavenly Father, I possibly would have succumbed to whatever the terrible result would have been.
After Jesus had supper with his disciples, they walked to the garden of Gethsemane. He asked them to wait for him while he went "further" to pray. The account of that prayer gives me chills when I read it. I don't know about you but I have seen time and time again the painting of Jesus in the garden, bowed at that rock, pouring his heart out to his Father. "Father if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me....not my will, but thine be done." That is a REALLY hard prayer to pray.
His disciples--his friends--got sleepy and fell asleep, totally obviously unaware of what was to come. I do that to the Lord often...begin to pray and then fall asleep. He loves me anyway. And, he loved his disciples. Anyway.
The song of the day today is one of my very favorite of our choir Easter songs, titled "He was willing" and it goes like this:
"It must have been lonely that day in the garden when Jesus knelt a stone's throw away.
Bent low beneath the burden he prayed to the father, "Be thy will, let this cup pass away".
An angel came to strengthen the Savior, as fervently he knelt there to pray.
And sweat like drops of blood fell on the ground before him, deeply grieved he knelt there to pray.
The cross was just ahead on Mt. Calvary, in agony his life he would give.
But he could see beyond to that resurrection morning,
He would die so that others might live, might live...
Yes he would die so that others might live, might live!"
The song sang anytime but especially during the Easter season gives me chills and yet makes me rejoice at the same time! My favorite phrase in that song is "But he could see beyond to that resurrection morning...". I encourage you to see beyond to what a life with Jesus holds for you. Life. Life. Life.
As George Matheson, a blind preacher of Scotland, once said, "Show me it is through my tears I have seen my rainbows."
Consider....
When I think of true agony, I think of it mentally. Agony to me hurts the heart to the core. Yes, to the very core. I can tell you that I've had those times too and were it not for my spiritual relationship with my heavenly Father, I possibly would have succumbed to whatever the terrible result would have been.
After Jesus had supper with his disciples, they walked to the garden of Gethsemane. He asked them to wait for him while he went "further" to pray. The account of that prayer gives me chills when I read it. I don't know about you but I have seen time and time again the painting of Jesus in the garden, bowed at that rock, pouring his heart out to his Father. "Father if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me....not my will, but thine be done." That is a REALLY hard prayer to pray.
His disciples--his friends--got sleepy and fell asleep, totally obviously unaware of what was to come. I do that to the Lord often...begin to pray and then fall asleep. He loves me anyway. And, he loved his disciples. Anyway.
The song of the day today is one of my very favorite of our choir Easter songs, titled "He was willing" and it goes like this:
"It must have been lonely that day in the garden when Jesus knelt a stone's throw away.
Bent low beneath the burden he prayed to the father, "Be thy will, let this cup pass away".
An angel came to strengthen the Savior, as fervently he knelt there to pray.
And sweat like drops of blood fell on the ground before him, deeply grieved he knelt there to pray.
The cross was just ahead on Mt. Calvary, in agony his life he would give.
But he could see beyond to that resurrection morning,
He would die so that others might live, might live...
Yes he would die so that others might live, might live!"
The song sang anytime but especially during the Easter season gives me chills and yet makes me rejoice at the same time! My favorite phrase in that song is "But he could see beyond to that resurrection morning...". I encourage you to see beyond to what a life with Jesus holds for you. Life. Life. Life.
As George Matheson, a blind preacher of Scotland, once said, "Show me it is through my tears I have seen my rainbows."
Consider....
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