Jesus,
while here in the flesh, suffered emotions and pain. He turned to the Father
when He had need – with requests and thanksgiving, and with urgent pleas. He
knew the Lord God, alone, could bring Him out of the vulnerability of human
life and even death, and God honored Him because of that absolute commitment.
(Hebrews 5:7-8)
When you feel overwhelmed, weak, vulnerable,
and you are afraid – do you have absolute confidence that God has the power to
save you, or to bring you through – even if you die? You must have this
confidence if you are going to respond well when it seems you are all alone.
Jesus, who lived this life of submission and
death to Himself he offers you, suffered. That is what this passage says. He
had emotion and felt pain. He felt alone and vulnerable and weak and tired.
But, even when it was hard to go forward on the path designed for Him, Jesus
turned to God – only God. God honored Him because He responded with that
absolute, consistent, and complete faith. What God desires from you is that
kind of total faith.
When you want to be afraid, be confident.
Know that your God – the Savior – the one who was brought out from death – can
bring you through whatever is placed in your day.
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