What's Your Gethsemane Moment?

Jesus withdrew from his disciples about a stone's throw, knelt down, and prayed, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done." Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and gave him strength. In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. Luke 22:41-44

This  image I captured reading the Manila Bulletin dated September 9th,2012 was written by  Dr. Jun Ynares.He lost a daughter and a pastor empathized with him by giving a letter.

He wrote:

“You are right; there is no other being who can fathom the depth of your pain. No one except Christ. He can, because He has been through the same pain – the severe pain of being alone at the moment of great suffering. I do hope you remember Christ at the Garden of Gethsemane? Yes, He’s been there. He knows exactly the kind of pain you wrote about.

“Christ’s pain at Gethsemane was not a physical one; it was emotional. It was pain borne out of a sense of aloneness. Of being just by oneself at a trying time. He did holler for help, pleading that his friends stay awake and keep him company at that moment of emotional anguish. None obliged. He remained alone. He remained just by himself. The moment was His alone. So was the emotional pain.

“Loneliness is perhaps one of our greatest pains. It is so great Christ actually sweated blood as He went through it.

“All of us will have our Gethsemane moments. You just had yours.

“Now, you are truly friends with Christ. That’s inevitable. He was the only One who knew how you felt because He had been through the similar ordeal of suffering alone. Now, you understand each other better.”

Read the whole article from Manila Bulletin: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/372774/gethsamane-moment