Gethsemane did not sneak up on Jesus
“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of Your hands . . .
“You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of Your hands . . .
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the trouble comes . . . and you wil say I find no pleasure in them . . .
When we’re walking through adversity, it’s easy to focus exclusively on the momentary trouble. God, however, has specific purposes for bringing us through times of hardship.
The undone, the unfinished, the unclear and the unavailable, Jesus all 'left behind' at His ascension. The disciples obediently prayed and waited together.
Simply, PENTECOST means 'fiftieth' in Greek. It is 50 days since the rock was rolled away, Jesus had risen. He had ascended 10 days prior to Pentecost.
Martin Luther said about the book of Esther, ‘I am so hostile to it that I wish it did not exist’.
Our streets boil over with hate, crime, anger and sheer hopelessness. (Franklin Graham) Ever more the world wearies. Weariness thrusts the human soul forward into temptation.
It’s been called ‘the Fifth Gospel’. Psalm 22 is unparalleled amongst the psalms in its prophetic portrayal of the suffering of the Lord Jesus on the cross.
"We can become so familiar with the story of the cross that we forget its foolishness. # But, first consider Gideon.
It seems, whatever the religion, there is some kind of ‘getting clean’ ritual.