I love these verses from Psalm 95 in our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan for today!
1 O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation! 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise! 3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
HE is worthy of all of our praise, thanksgiving and worship! I hope that you are spending time doing so each and every day! Today's "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers should be inspiration for you!
His Agony And Our Fellowship
Then
cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the
disciples,…tarry ye here, and watch with Me. — Matthew 26:36, 38
We can never fathom the
agony in Gethsemane, but at least we need not misunderstand it. It is the agony
of God and Man in one, face to face with sin. We know nothing about Gethsemane
in personal experience. Gethsemane and Calvary stand for something unique; they
are the gateway into Life for us.
It was not the death on the cross that Jesus feared in
Gethsemane; He stated most emphatically that He came on purpose to die. In
Gethsemane He feared lest He might not get through as Son of Man. He would get
through as Son of God — Satan could not touch Him there; but Satan’s onslaught
was that He would get through as an isolated Figure only; and that would mean
that He could be no Saviour. Read the record of the agony in the light of the temptation:
Then the devil “departed from Him for a season.” In Gethsemane Satan came back
and was again overthrown. Satan’s final onslaught against our Lord as
Son of Man is in Gethsemane.
The agony in Gethsemane is the agony of the Son of God in
fulfilling His destiny as the Saviour of the world. The veil is drawn aside to
reveal all it cost Him to make it possible for us to become sons of God. His
agony is the basis of the simplicity of our salvation. The Cross of Christ is a
triumph for the Son of Man. It was not only a sign that Our Lord
had triumphed, but that He had triumphed to save the human race. Every human
being can get through into the presence of God now because of what the Son of
Man went through.
So many times people think that what JESUS did was easy for Him because He was/is God! What they do not understand is that, though He always was God, once He was born as a baby into the earth, He never operated as God while here! Everything He did, He did as a MAN under the Old Covenant! Hebrews 4:15 tells us this about that:
For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize and understand our weaknesses and temptations, but One who has been tempted [knowing exactly how it feels to be human] in every respect as we are, yet without [committing any] sin.
The temptation that Jesus CONQUERED in the Garden was very, very real to His humanity! THAT is why He IS the PERFECT Sacrifice and Mediator between God and man! HE paid OUR price so that WE could have HIS Righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21)! AMEN! Thank YOU, JESUS! Here is an older song from Hillsong called "This Kingdom":
Shalom in Him!
