The Garden of Gethsemane
JESUS IN THE GARDEN, COMMITTING TO OBEY THE FATHER
Jesus and his disciples came to the Garden of Gethsemane, taking one step closer to the cross. He enters into the Garden and endures a terrible torment. Asking if at all possible the cup he was about to drink would be removed from him. This close to the cross, Christ gazes into its horrors more clearly than ever before. Looking to the bottom of the cup of God's wrath and agonizing over the reality that he'd have to drink it down to its very dregs. He, "the beloved Son," in whom God has never been anything but "well-pleased," would experience his Father's holy displeasure toward sin. This wrestling in prayer concludes with the Son's complete expression of obedience to the Father's plan, "Yet not what I will, but what you will" (14:36). Yet, way before this text is applied to us as a reason to obey even when it's hard, and to honor God's will like Jesus, the point is that Jesus is in the Garden obeying because we'd disobeyed God.