His pain intersects with ours

Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me. –Matthew26:36-38

Even if we cannot understand the Lord’s pain in Gethsemane. Let us not misunderstand. This is the unity of man and God facing the pain of sin. So, in terms of our personal experience, it’s impossible to experience. Gethsemane and Golgotha, the only things of Jesus, that we may have the gates of life. In gethsemane Jesus was not afraid of the death of the cross. He had emphasized that he had come to die. His fear was that he would not be able to pass this as “the son of man.” As the son of God, Jesus could pass. Satan could not touch him, but Satan wants to destroy himself as a solitary individual. That is, made him not to be a savior.

Try to read Gethsemane’s painful prayer with the Lord being tempted. “The devil left Jesus for a time.” In Gethsemane, Satan’s final attack on the Lord as the son of Man is in Gethsemane. The pain of God in Gethsemane is the pain that the son of God endured to fulfill his mission as the savior of the world. The curtain was torn to show that he paid to make us sons of God. We are saved so easily because of his pain. The cross of Christ is the victory of the son of Man. This not only shows that our Lord has triumphed, but also brings salvation of mankind. Now everyone can come to God because of the pain the “son of Man” went through.

Dear God, how unappreciative I am for your salvation and your complete salvation. God, drive me to greater Thanksgiving; let me have an everlasting love for the Lord Jesus Christ. （20190917）