I say I'm wrong. I'm all too ready to be corrected. I get lost in how much I don't know, and I also stress about how to learn as much as I can as quickly as I can. That's probably another post...
So a few weeks ago I wrote this:
I've thought a lot about Jesus in the garden too. He didn't want to go through with it. He asked for the cup to pass from Him. I think that it was the separation from God that was the thing he feared the most. The wrath from God for the sin He carried. I wonder, though, if the physical agony he knew He was going to endure made him fearful before hand. I mean he was fully man, and fully God. Did the man part fear the physical part of the process He was going to go through?
I'm sure it's no coincidence that in the last two weeks, I've heard two different sermons that had my correction in them. Basically what the truth is that Jesus didn't fear the physical aspect of his beating, torture and crucifixion at all. There have been scores of people who went to a horrific death in the name of Christ and went bravely, rejoicing all the way. Christ was and is certainly braver and less afraid of earthly afflictions than humans. It was simply the separation and wrath from God that He was fearing. There's more, but I'm not sure I would do it justice anyway. You get the point.
So there you go. I am sure I was wanting to justify my fear of a gruesome death by wondering in Christ did the same. He didn't. And I'm sure that is reason for mediating on this subject some more. I'm also sure that God will give grace in that time of need. Doesn't do a lot of good to wonder what it would be like to die like that, nor to wonder too much how I'd react. I'd die for Christ, and that's pretty much all I need to think about at this point.
This was total mush and mismash, but I needed to get it out. This is what happens when you Blog when you don't have a real brain yet. :)
So a few weeks ago I wrote this:
I've thought a lot about Jesus in the garden too. He didn't want to go through with it. He asked for the cup to pass from Him. I think that it was the separation from God that was the thing he feared the most. The wrath from God for the sin He carried. I wonder, though, if the physical agony he knew He was going to endure made him fearful before hand. I mean he was fully man, and fully God. Did the man part fear the physical part of the process He was going to go through?
I'm sure it's no coincidence that in the last two weeks, I've heard two different sermons that had my correction in them. Basically what the truth is that Jesus didn't fear the physical aspect of his beating, torture and crucifixion at all. There have been scores of people who went to a horrific death in the name of Christ and went bravely, rejoicing all the way. Christ was and is certainly braver and less afraid of earthly afflictions than humans. It was simply the separation and wrath from God that He was fearing. There's more, but I'm not sure I would do it justice anyway. You get the point.
So there you go. I am sure I was wanting to justify my fear of a gruesome death by wondering in Christ did the same. He didn't. And I'm sure that is reason for mediating on this subject some more. I'm also sure that God will give grace in that time of need. Doesn't do a lot of good to wonder what it would be like to die like that, nor to wonder too much how I'd react. I'd die for Christ, and that's pretty much all I need to think about at this point.
This was total mush and mismash, but I needed to get it out. This is what happens when you Blog when you don't have a real brain yet. :)
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