24.195 | MY SOUL IS VERY SORROWFUL | Mark

God’s Word for Today
14 Aug, 2024
Mark 14:32-42 ESV
MY SOUL IS VERY SORROWFUL
In the garden of Gethsemane[meaning oil press], Jesus brought His disciples for the last time. He went there to pray. While He let the others sit, he brought along with Him Peter, James and John a little further to be with Him. They were His intimate disciples.
Why?
He was greatly distressed and troubled. His soul is sorrowful. Did He feel a weakness that He needed company? Yes, but He did not commit any sin.[Heb 4:15] The word "sorrowful" is from the Greek root word ‘perilupos’ and is also translated "deeply grieved" and "overwhelmed with sorrow." Is it not true the Jesus has suffered the worse hardship than anyone else experienced in the world? He received the wrath of God.
Like Jesus, we have to acknowledge our most agonizing feelings while obeying God who placed us on this path. Let us not deny our pain but not as one without hope.
Jesus was so distraught. He was not overreacting to His suffering, was He? In fact, He sweats so profusely the sweat drops are like drops of blood (Luke 22:44). As He prays, an angel comes to comfort Him (Luke 22:43). He knows He would experience the abandonment from His Father and he felt the gravity of God’s wrath. Are we going to minimize the agony He feels bearing the weight of our sins and watching His Father turn away from Him? How did he demonstrate His agony? He fell to the ground, and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.[v.35]
He knew the implications of the ‘cup’ from God. Firstly, one's "cup" is referring to one's lot in life, whether good or bad. When Jesus gives the cup to the disciples at the Lord's Supper, they are taking on the life His blood provides, both the persecution that comes to His followers (Mark 10:38-39) and everlasting life in paradise (Mark 14:23-24).
One more concept of "the cup" is that it is a spiritual symbol for God's wrath. In Rev 14:10, there is a description depicting the fate of those who take on the mark of the beast. That is, "he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger…" This is the "cup" that Jesus takes on the cross for believers. It's only logical that He would want to avoid it, but He finishes His prayer submitting to the wishes of His Father.
Today, we relish to the reality that God is able to understand our pains. Jesus has been there. As Psa 34:18 says,
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit.”
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