April 25
Luke 22:35-53
Where do you draw encouragement and perseverance from? When life gets hard, where do you turn for comfort and wisdom? For Jesus it was to turn to the Father, which instructs us where we should turn as well. Jesus is a day from the cross and hours away from his betrayal and arrest, and we find him praying. The only portion of his prayer which is recorded ends with, “Yet not my will, but yours be done.” This is how Jesus began his teaching on how to pray and how he ends his own prayer here. He knew the pain, abandonment, sorrow, and death which awaited him, but he continued to pray submitting to the will of the Father. He was not motivated by his own comfort, but instead for the glory of God. What a model and example for us when we are facing our own garden moments.
We do not always turn to the right place in times of trouble but thankfully Jesus’ faithfulness never ends. Even to the very end, he was willing to endure anything in order to do what the Father asked of him Thankfully he did, because it is his work that provides the means for our salvation. When we are faithless, he is faithful. When we sin, his perfect righteousness and obedience covers us. His obedience functions both as the means of our justification and the encouragement to continue to pursue sanctification until the day that we are glorified.
Father God, thank you for the perfect obedience of Jesus─for his faithfulness to the end. Amen.
How does Jesus’ garden prayer encourage and challenge you?
Where do you draw encouragement and perseverance from? When life gets hard, where do you turn for comfort and wisdom? For Jesus it was to turn to the Father, which instructs us where we should turn as well. Jesus is a day from the cross and hours away from his betrayal and arrest, and we find him praying. The only portion of his prayer which is recorded ends with, “Yet not my will, but yours be done.” This is how Jesus began his teaching on how to pray and how he ends his own prayer here. He knew the pain, abandonment, sorrow, and death which awaited him, but he continued to pray submitting to the will of the Father. He was not motivated by his own comfort, but instead for the glory of God. What a model and example for us when we are facing our own garden moments.
We do not always turn to the right place in times of trouble but thankfully Jesus’ faithfulness never ends. Even to the very end, he was willing to endure anything in order to do what the Father asked of him Thankfully he did, because it is his work that provides the means for our salvation. When we are faithless, he is faithful. When we sin, his perfect righteousness and obedience covers us. His obedience functions both as the means of our justification and the encouragement to continue to pursue sanctification until the day that we are glorified.
Father God, thank you for the perfect obedience of Jesus─for his faithfulness to the end. Amen.
How does Jesus’ garden prayer encourage and challenge you?
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