I have been wanting to...or at least I thought I wanted to watch the Passion again while I was home alone so I could weep uncontrollably...but so far I haven't been able to do that...the pictures from last time are still too vivid. But there is something so powerful about this part of the Gospel story I want to remember it all. Gethsemane has been my favorite Bible story for a long time. Maybe because I tend to wrestle with God over so much of my life and here I find Jesus wrestling too. He does understand my pleadings...both of them do. God and Jesus. I can't really believe that God was having an easy time watching Jesus struggle with the fear and pain that was to come. I imagine God's Father heart was breaking too. How could He even ask His Son to walk through something as horrible as the Cross and all the suffering He would endure even before He was put on the Cross? I don't get it at all. Was/is our sin more revolting and horrible to God than watching His only Son suffer and die? Was it all about God's love for us that apparently is greater than His love for His Son! Can there be any beauty that comes from Gethsemane's pain and sorrow? I think the beauty may only come when we take communion together... taking the broken bread and the crushed grapes as we remember all that both God Himself and Jesus suffered. At this time we are taking communion alone...He is continuing to wait for us to join Him until the day we take it together in the New Kingdom. Then we will understand how deeply God loves us, how precious the sacrificed Lamb is and our own wrestling, our own Gethsemane's will fade away.....in worship and understanding.
Does anyone know why Mark 14:51-52 are in this chapter and what, if any meaning there is for us?
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