Jesus Prayer on the Mount of Olives
is the place where He used to go to be away on the Mount of Olives, Jesus felt the need before facing the ordeal that lay before him, retired with His disciples. We all need, like Jesus, for specific locations that are our places of refuge, even decline, in which we can withdraw to live time from heart to heart with God: see Mat 6.6. Blessings in peacetime, these places become, in the moment of trial, places the ultimate resource, the latest we will leave for after meeting God and finding Him in the provision of power that we are required to face the test comes.
The narratives of Matthew and Mark differ somewhat from that of Luke in the details of what is lived here. Major return, however, several constants in the stories:
1. If Jesus came to the Mount of Olives, was for a time of intense communion with His Father in prayer. If Matthew and Mark focus on the return of Jesus to His disciples asleep, what caught the attention of Luke is the intensity with which Jesus prays here. It is the only witness to the mental suffering was acute in which Jesus, suffering which resulted in an unusual phenomenon : The transformation of his sweat drops of blood dripping from his face and fell to the ground. If he is right on the historical (the reference is missing in many ancient manuscripts), this indicates that the battle was one of Jesus at that time fighting that one feels also in other writings. Although present in all His life, Jesus' resistance against the temptation of sin, resignation and the selection here is the easy path to its summit, a resistance which goes to the blood: Heb 5.8, 12.3 -4 .
If Jesus suffered in the fight he led in the wilderness at the beginning His ministry, against the devil, it appears that the fight the more difficult it has to support is that of his will against that of His Father. We sometimes think our greatest battles are those that we know with regard to the sin of the world or the devil. It is not! "Our toughest battles, Ronald Dunn demonstrates, we oppose to God! . This is the lesson that had to learn in his time Jacob: Genesis 32.23 to 33. This is the experience that Jesus knew here. This will also enter into the reality that our lives!
2. If Jesus came to the Mount of Olives with His disciples that He wanted their companionship and support for this difficult time that was before Him. There are things that, like Jesus here, we must face alone. However, if we are brothers and that we belong to a true community, we should not live alone. Even if others will not be with us in the most difficult time, we lived in the moments that precede it, the reality of their support.
Jesus has not had that joy. Is this the reason that the missing men, God sends an angel to strengthen him? Possible! Experience Jesus lived here carries two lessons, essential to remember for every servant of God. The first is that loneliness is often part of him who is called to high destinies on the spiritual plane, including the high destinies as the requirement of a great sacrifice to accomplish the plan God has in mind for him. The second is that if the companions are rare on this path, God, He will not fail!
3. The experience of Jesus on the Mount of Olives is the demonstration of the correctness of His words to Peter about his disability, and the other disciples to be faithful to Him end. It is the prelude to the script written and foretold by Jesus to them, namely their abandonment at all.
How are painful, yet necessary, the lessons of truth that we teach and the school life of suffering upon ourselves. We can not follow Jesus, or carry with him a spiritual battle in our own strength. We need to learn it, not once but multiple times. That the experience of that day helps me better appreciate the price You paid for my salvation and the need to be close in Ta, O Lord, to exit winner of the struggles related to my testimony in this world!
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