Showing posts with label Luke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Luke. Show all posts
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Strength from heaven
I have just read today's reading in Luke 22: 39-43. Jesus is at a real low, to put it mildly. He is just about to face death; a very humiliating one, and very humiliating awful prolonged questioning and mocking and all the rest of it. Even though it says elsewhere several times that Jesus is choosing this path, in order for the world to be restored, this is the one point where he says "please, Father..... is there any other way..... I don't want to do this, take this huge responsibility off me." He is at breaking point. But then there comes this surrender to the bigger picture: "yet not my will but yours be done". I think at this point he gives God what little he has, even though he feels weak, overwhelmed and alone.
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