Today’s Thought “Self-Preservation” G. Ward

Luke 22:41-42 And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and began to pray, saying, “Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”

 

Luke’s account of the sufferings of Jesus before crucifixion observed the agony the Savior endured from a physician’s point of view; witnessing extraordinary stress from the Incarnate causing Him to actually sweat blood. Howbeit that such a wonderful Redeemer while in a torturous state (cf. Ro.5:8) could declare that the Father’s desire use Him wherever/however for sin found in you and me (*1 Jn.1:6-8); to now make demands of safety, healing and monetary rescue, while forgetting the progenitors of faith (Heb.11:3-40) having endured great sufferings while testifying that earth was not their home?

Could any of your great-grandparents declare the same perpetuations we’re insistent with? Are we morally more sufficient than that generation (cf. Eph.2:8-9)?