TUESDAY April 12, 2022
The Cross, God’s Will
Then He [Jesus] said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.” … 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.”
Mark 14:34, 36
As the time grew even closer to when Christ would be crucified, the Scriptures reveal even more the duality of His nature. Jesus expressed the heaviness of His human sorrow to His disciples. The unity of the Godhead is seen as the Son prayed to the Father. Once again, in His humanity, He sought another way besides this cup of suffering. Could there be any way other than the way of the Cross to save mankind?
There was no other way, and despite Jesus’ crushing grief and sorrow, He submitted to His Father’s will. Jesus set His face as flint knowing the agony of the Cross: “For the Lord GOD will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed” (Isaiah 50:7).
Jesus knew He would have to carry the weight of man’s sin on the Cross. In His call as Savior, He would fulfill the word of Isaiah 53:5: But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities.... Jesus knew that during His crucifixion, for a moment in time, He would be forsaken by His Father. A holy God could not look upon sin. Another prophecy would be fulfilled: My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning? (Psalm 22:1)
When facing trials, we often ask the Lord to deliver us from sorrow, grief, pain and temptation, but we forget He is with us through these things. He never forsakes us. If we remain submitted to God’s will, He will sustain us through life’s greatest trials. He will always be with us.
“Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.’ ”
~Hebrews 10:7~
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