For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.
Gethsemane is where He died; the cross is only the evidence.
I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.
The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
Part of the reason the Savior suffered in Gethsemane was so that he would have an infinite compassion for us as we experience our trials and tribulations. Through his suffering in Gethsemane, the Savior became qualified to be the perfect judge. Not one of us will be able to approach him on the Judgment Day and say, ‘You don’t know what it was like. ’ He knows the nature of our trials better than we do, for he ‘descended below them all.
It is a great thing, when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips. . . to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us.
