“And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:10
Suggested Further Reading: Mark 14:32-42
Jesus said, “I will take the cup of salvation;” and he did take it—the cup of our deliverance. Bitter were its drops; gall lay in its depths; there were groans, and sighs, and tears, within the red mixture; but he took it all, and drank it to its dregs, and swallowed all the awful draught.
All was gone. He drank the cup of salvation, and he ate the bread of affliction. See him, as he drinks the cup in Gethsemane, when the fluid of that cup did mingle with his blood, and make each drop a scalding poison.
Mark how the hot feet of pain did travel down his veins. See how each nerve is twisted and contorted with his agony.
Behold his brow covered with sweat; witness the agonies as they follow each other into the very depths of his soul. Speak, you lost, and tell what hell’s torment means; but you cannot tell what the torments of Gethsemane were.
Oh! the deep unutterable! There was a depth which couched beneath, when our Redeemer bowed his head, when he placed himself between the upper and nether millstones of his Father’s vengeance, and when his whole soul was ground to powder.
Ah! that wrestling God-man—that suffering man of Gethsemane! Weep o’er, saints—weep o’er him; when you see him rising from that prayer in the garden, marching forth to his cross; when you picture him hanging on his cross four long hours in the scorching sun, overwhelmed by his Father’s passing wrath—when you see his side streaming with gore—when ye hear his death-shriek, “It is finished,”—and see his lips all parched, and moistened by nothing save the vinegar and the gall,—ah! then prostrate yourselves before that cross, bow down before that sufferer, and say, “Thou hast made us—thou hast made us what we are; we are nothing without thee.”
For meditation:
Creating us could not have been easier for God—it took just a word. (Genesis 1:26,27 ).
Making us right with himself could not have given him more trouble.
The work of salvation was terribly hard for the Lord Jesus Christ, but he completed it.
It would have been absolutely impossible for us.
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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
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