# 706 Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 14:36 And He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will."
Here's a pop quiz for you. How many times are the tears of Jesus recorded in Scripture?
The usual answer is two. Once when Lazarus died and once over the fate of Jerusalem. But wait, here in the Garden is still another time, and we read of it in Heb 5:7, “who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,”
No human being has ever cried as our Savior cried this night in Gethsemane!
Strong forceful sobbings of the soul of His humanity, the sum total of the sobbing of the damned as He takes on the wrath of God for the sins of the world.
Yes, we rightly commemorate Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but it was here in Gethsemane on Maundy Thursday that the real battle was fought. The writer of Hebrews tells us that the Father heard the pleas of His Son. His prayer was answered.
It was? How? It was answered in the angel that came to strengthen Jesus. (Luke 22:43) It was this heaven sent strength that enabled Jesus to say, “Thy will be done!”
In our own strivings of the flesh against doing the will of God, let us take heart from this passage. Jesus has been there, may He help us in our hour of temptation. May he give us the strength to say, Thy will be done” and the power to walk us through whatever it may be.
Father, there are times when our flesh rebels against what You would have us do. Strengthen us during these times. Give us the resolve to do what is right in accordance with Your Word.
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