So in my devotion today, I happened to be reading a commentary on Matthew 26. Where Jesus goes into the Garden of Gethsemane to pray.
I found it interesting that they paralleled that with the Garden of Eden:
"He who made atonement for the sins of mankind, submitted himself in a garden of suffering, to the will of God, from which man had revolted in a garden of pleasure."
(http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/?action=getCommentaryText&cid=48&source=2&seq=i.47.26.7)
It went on to explain that when Jesus was praying, he had such an overwhelming sorrow that the actual words used(Greek I think) "denote the most entire dejection, amazement, anguish, and horror of mind; the state of one surrounded with sorrows, overwhelmed with miseries, and almost swallowed up with terror and dismay."
That really brought me up short. What was I just whining about yesterday? Good grief! Jesus was about to endure the most terrifying torture and death imaginable and yet, he prays "Not my will, but yours be done,"...
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