Tonight

So sorry for the absence.  I am recuperating from our spring break trip to Florida.  We had a wonderful time while we were there.  The drive was a bit sketchy with my youngest having the stomach flu on the way there and the middle boy having it on the way home, but we all survived.  Anyhow, I also had a blog all ready for last night and somehow, my computer lost it...so I'll recreate that one later.   So, on to tonight:

As I am guessing most of  you know, tonight is Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday.  The night Jesus celebrated the "Last Supper" with his disciples.  Tonight at our Church service our Pastor spoke on the time Jesus spent in the Garden in Prayer.  He spoke on the agony he was in and how he was fighting the battle in prayer even before he headed into what he knew was before him.  Jesus knew what was coming and went to God in prayer and asked Him if he could do it any other way; but, I believe, in knowing that this was the only way, he prayed that Gods will be done. 

How hard that is for us to do.  Knowing that many times God's will is not our own, we desire our selfish wants, but if we would just trust in God's plan and truly believe that it needs to be His will and not our own, what awesome things will be ahead of us, that only He could provide.  This world is not our final destination and that is something I often have to remind myself.  When I think in those terms, praying for God's will becomes a bit easier.  He has a plan that goes far beyond what we will ever see here.

I know this is not my best writing (not that I have any stellar writings); however, I just simply have enjoyed reading over the verses below and pondering what must have been going through Jesus mind knowing all he knew and still trusting his father and following through with His plan to bring Glory to Him and to save us!!!  

I just hope that we remember the truth about Easter when celebrating this year!!!  

Matthew 26: 36-46

 ³⁶ 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.” ³⁷ He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. ³⁸ Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

 ³⁹ Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

 ⁴⁰ Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. ⁴¹ “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

 ⁴² He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”

 ⁴³ When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. ⁴⁴ So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

 ⁴⁵ Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. ⁴⁶ Rise! Let us go! Here comes my betrayer!”