Holy Week – Day 5 Thursday
Yancey writes: “A great struggle was under way, and the Gospels
describe Jesus’ torment in a way quite unlike Jewish and Christian stories of
martyrdom. ‘Take this cup from me,’ he pled.
These were no pious, formal prayers: ’being in anguish, he prayed more
earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.’ What was the struggle, exactly? Fear of pain
and death? Of course, Jesus no more relished the prospects than you or I
do. But there was more at work as well,
a new experience for Jesus that can only be called God-forsakenness. At its core Gethsemane depicts after all, the
story of an unanswered prayer. The cup
of suffering was not removed.”
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