Angel Confirms Direction for Jesus

Acknowledging God

Follow in My Ways

The Lord Will Provide

Luke 22:39-46 The Message

A Dark Night

39-40 Leaving there, he went, as he so often did, to Mount Olives. The disciples followed him. When they arrived at the place, he said, “Pray that you don’t give in to temptation.”
41-44 He pulled away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed, “Father, remove this cup from me. But please, not what I want. What do you want?” At once an angel from heaven was at his side, strengthening him. He prayed on all the harder. Sweat wrung from him like drops of blood, poured off his face.
45-46 He got up from prayer, went back to the disciples and found them asleep, drugged by grief. He said, “What business do you have sleeping? Get up. Pray, so you won’t give in to temptation.”

For Reflection

Let me not be lead into temptation. Deliver me from the evil of this world.  

Christ prayed, God heard and sent an angel to strengthen Jesus' resolve to accept the will of God.  Jesus violent death, the sacrifice of his body and blood, is a sign of salvation and redemption that he could not and would not evade. The Christ event is an invitation to participate with Christ in God's plan.  Jesus asks the disciples to pray so that they will not be seduced by the easy way of conforming to this world, but to take up His cross and face the potential to lose their old lives in their new lives in the last days.

Pray

Pray as Christ did.  Pray for the courage to obey God and follow the way of Jesus Christ.
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