All tagged agony
As we are now in the midst of Holy Week, and Easter Sunday is imminent, my mind dwells ever more completely on the activities that were about to transpire in the life of Jesus as He faced the Cross. This morning I am concentrating on the Garden of Gethsemane and the sorrow and agony that Jesus encountered there as He prayed.
Each morning when I wake up I thank God for the day, and the many blessings of the day before. I also pray the He forgives me for my sins, ask for the salvation of the souls of those around me, and many other things, but I always conclude my early morning prayers by asking Him to keep His hand on me during the day, and to continue blessing me. However, when I ask for His blessing I fully understand that those blessings come in many forms. I might receive some by joyfully being in His presence, I might happily get additional pay at work, or meet a new person who I can share the gospel with, but blessings don’t always come wrapped in happiness, sometimes they are born of terrible suffering and hardship. You see, our greatest blessings are spiritual in nature, and those quite often rise up from hard times. Are you in the midst of a storm in your life?