PrintToday's "Moment with Mark" (94)
23 February, 2013
"Abba, Father," he said, "everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will, not mine." (Mark 14:36 NLT)
I need to return to this same verse we considered all too briefly yesterday. There's more truth and insight to be encountered here than a "moment with Mark" can accommodate.
Consider Jesus' affirmation that everything is possible for God. That was a statement of truth. Jesus believed it with all His heart. So, if nothing is impossible for God (and that would include, in this case, the removal of the cup of suffering), it follows that it must be the Will of the Father for it to remain.
My mind goes back to Mark 1/40 when a leper came to Jesus and said, "If you want to, you can make me well". It seems to me that Jesus is now saying the same thing to His Heavenly Father; "If you want to, you can remove this cup of suffering from me'.
Did Jesus have any comprehension as to what awaited Him? I would say "Yes". On those occasions when he tried to explain what would happen when they arrived at Jerusalem, He did so with a surprising amount of detail. It was knowing the horror that He was about to enter that energised the passion of His appeal for His Father to remove that cup from Him.
That, in turn, makes His surrender and submission to what was the sovereign will and purpose of His Father even more remarkable.
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