It’s been a long while since I’ve posted. I’m planning on using the blog in the new year mainly to clip and comment on quotes I accumulate (as was my practice in the past). Here’s one from Haddon Robinson. He makes the point that Jesus’ struggle in prayer at Gethsemane helped him to stand fast in his trial and crucifixion:
Where was it that Jesus sweat great drops of blood? Not in Pilate’s Hall, nor on his way to Golgotha. It was in the Garden of Gethsemane. There he ‘offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save him from death’ (Hebrews 5:7). Had I been there and witnessed that struggle, I would have worried about the future. ‘If he is so broken up when all he is doing is praying,’ I might have said, ‘what will he do when he faces a real crisis? Why can’t he approach this ordeal with the calm confidence of his three sleeping friends?’ Yet, when the test came, Jesus walked to the cross with courage, and his three friends fell apart and fell away.”
