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Your prayer in the garden helps me to grasp the scandal as well as the majesty of the cross.
Finally, I thank you, Lord, for modeling such openness in prayer. Your example gives me freedom to speak truly and openly as I pray, to pour out my heart without hesitation. Thank you for this priceless gift.
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The Lords six prayers in Gethsemane. I would invite you to consider what the gut-wrenching honesty of Jesus says to you. If we look in the Old Testament, we find that the metaphor of the cup stands for our lives, which can be filled with a variety of things. Jesus was in prayer when He was transfigured before the three disciples Luke 9: Jesus has been describing blessings that come to those who hand over the reins of life to his control.
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The higher the vote, the further up an answer is. A good answer provides new insight and perspective. Here are guidelines to help facilitate a meaningful learning experience for everyone. What did Jesus mean when He said "let this cup pass from Me"?
Jesus knew that that day would come. Imagine the agony of that! Multiply the most horrible pain and suffering by any human by all the people who have ever lived and have yet to live. They know not what they do. Gerald LaRosa Music Minster, Professional Musician I have been recently been concerned and fearful about facing old age and death and how on a linear scale, I am looking at the "horizon" of my life.
I have been blessed with wonderful friends, family and memories. I can look back at the "landscape" of my life and praise the Lord that there are green pastures and fruit.
Still, it's natural to want to live and enjoy our loved ones without the constraint of the inevitable disease of aging and eventual death. I know I'll see our Lord and it's a win-win situation. Jesus, facing death, suffered in the garden and asked the Father if this cup can be taken from Him - with this in mind - Human Jesus, God of the universe faced the same concern.
This kindled in me a kindred spirit and gave me comfort that I am not alone as Jesus will be beside me as I will someday face my final moments in my earthly garden. Bitter were its drops; gall lay in its depths; there were groans, and sighs, and tears, within the red mixture; but he took it all, and drank it to its dregs, and swallowed all the awful draught.
What was the cup that Jesus wanted God to take away? disciples and Jesus spent in the Garden of Gethsemane, just before Jesus was arrested. Yet not as I will, but as you will”—the KJV says, “Let this cup pass from me” (Matthew ). A little later, Jesus prays, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken. If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. He went a little farther on, threw himself face downward on the ground, and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, take this cup of suffering from me! Jesus Prays at Gethsemane.
He drank the cup of salvation, and he ate the bread of affliction. See him, as he drinks the cup in Gethsemane, when the fluid of that cup did mingle with his blood, and make each drop a scalding poison. Mark how the hot feet of pain did travel down his veins.
See how each nerve is twisted and contorted with his agony. Behold his brow covered with sweat; witness the agonies as they follow each other into the very depths of his soul. Kessina Onorive He was conscious of what the will of the Father was to him. From the beginning man fell and gave his authority to the devil.