The Gethsemane Principle

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Messiah was in the garden of Gethsemane. He was sweating and praying, "Not My will, but Thy will be done. If you can take this away from Me, please do, but Your will be done." Some people wonder how this could be. If Yeshua, Jesus is the Messiah, if He's Divine, how could He be struggling? He should be saying "I cannot wait to die on the cross." No, that's the point. The cross was going to be terrible. He was going to feel pain. Clearly, He was struggling and yet He still chose to go to the cross. He chose against feeling. It wasn't easy and it wasn't natural. It was excruciating. He's showing us something. The greatest love we can give, is love when it's not easy, when it's not pleasurable. When we don't feel like it, when it hurts, when it's humiliating, love anyway. Messiah loved you and it cost Him everything. Therefore, love today, against feeling, against the flesh. Love where there is no love, when there is no pleasure in it. That is Messiah's love to you - and it's the greatest love.rn

From Message #819 - The Radical Love