[FamilyofGod] Gethsemane
Gethsemane
Jesus came to the garden of Gethsemane, feeling a urgent need to pray. An overwhelming sense of sorrow, even the sorrow unto death overwhelmed His spirit. The sorrow for the death, was not physical death, but by the association of His death with sin. His Holy Nature shrunk back from this experience. Yet He knew, this was His purpose, His calling. This is why He came to earth, just to die for you and me!
Jesus was obedient unto death. Oh how this must have laid upon His Pure Heart.
The burden upon Him was heavy and stressful, and He was aware of what He must face ahead. His holy nature recognized the sins of the world that were about to be cast upon Him. Overwhelming and dark. Yet He told the Father, not my will, but thine be done, and persevered in prayer. The Word says he prayed so hard, so fervently, his sweat was as drops of blood.
I am struck by the thought that after years of discipling, His disciples failed Him so often. They often could not perform the miracles needed, because their faith was far short of what was needed to perform those miracles. They fell asleep on the night He so desperately needed them to pray with Him, when he pleaded with them, to stay awake with him. And even as He was in jail, being beaten and spit upon, His beloved disciples denied they even knew Him. This reminds me so much of how much we fail our heavenly Father. Yet His disciples were with him daily and even they, had moments they deserted Him.
Yet, I am also struck by the fact, that He knew this! And He loved us anyway... Hallelujah!
Oh how could He love us like this, we are so very unworthy, we fail Him again and again, but His arms are always open, willing to forgive, if we recognize these sins, and repent of them.
And that is why He came. He knew our frame…that we are but dust. That we could never keep the law fully, and we were in need of redemption. The poverty of our souls was upon Him.
This week, it came to mind what sins Jesus had to bear. Every vile filthy illness ever known to man was put upon His body at the same time. Every filthy, ugly, hidden sin known to man was laid upon Him at the same moment. All the filthy child molesters of this world, the rapists, the torturers, and the evil of this world became a covering that was laid upon Him. He had to bear it all at one time. If you went into a hospital tonight, just one hospital, and saw the suffering, and those close to death, the horrid disease people go through, multiply that by hundreds, and by generations, and by hundreds of years, and all this became His burden.
Imagine the crimes that you have heard of this century, all that was laid upon Him. Imagine just the sins that you have committed, whether in public or in private. All these are known to Him. All of this sin, darkness and generations of it, from thousands of sinners were laid upon Him at once. He did this, so we might have a way out of the sinfulness of this world, forgiveness forever, and eternal life... this then, was His precious gift to us, salvation through His blood sacrifice upon the cruel cross.
We cannot bear three burdens at the same time, How could He then bear all the burdens, sorrow, evil and sins of the world?
Who else would do so great a sacrifice for those who only sought to hurt, and live in sin? Who else loved us like this? Would you die for every sinner ever known to man? Think on this, would you do it? How then could He do it?
He did, sacrificially, willingly, humbly, Because He loved us.
He willingly went forth with this journey. Even when everyone He loved detrayed Him, and left Him alone. His duty was to die for us, and nothing could stop that. Jesus faced a journey ahead none of us could comprehend, and He would face hell, death and the grave. And He would conquer them all. The grave would no longer have victory over our bodies. Satan would be defeated, and death would have no sting, for it only is the door to eternity with God.
Something we cannot conceive of in our minds, the darkness and the horror he faced for you and me.
For us. For you and me. WE needed the salvation. WE needed a Savior. No one ever loved me Like Jesus. There's no other friend so kind as he. No one ever took the sin and darkness from me. Oh how much He cared for me.
Oh Father God, bring us to the cross, make us mindful of our place in you. Remind our hearts of that night that you suffered and bled and died for our filthy sins. Bring us back to our first love. Remind us life is not about us, it is about our journey to you. We were created to praise you, and to live for you. Remind us of the cross. Let it never fade from our vision. Let us be all you desire each day. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, Oh Lord, My strength and my redeemer.
Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid?
Your heart does the spirit control?
You can only be blessed, and have peace and sweet rest.
If you give Him your body and soul.
He gave His all, that I might be born fresh and new at that cross. Remind me Oh Lord of that cross, let it never fade. Because of your death, your blood sacrifice, my sins can be washed white as snow. How humbled I am by the very thought of it. I praise your name Precious Lord and surrender all I have, and all I will ever be to your will. I confess my sins, and receive your salvation, and will follow you all the days of my life.
In Jesus Precious Name, Amen.
The cross, the birthplace of salvation.
Oh how much He cared for us.
Remember
Only one life, will soon be past,
Only what is done, for Christ will last.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. (2 Corinthians 13:14)
Love & Prayers,
Michael J. Knight.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-C-T-S/
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
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