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WEDNESDAY APRIL 15


TOO MUCH FOR ME

READ:
O My Father,
if it is possible,
let this cup pass
from Me.
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God never gives us more than we can handle," someone said to a father whose 5-year-old son had just lost his battle with cancer. These words, which were intended to encourage him, instead depressed him and caused him to wonder why he wasn't "handling" the loss of his boy at all. The pain was so much to bear that he could hardly even breathe. He knew his grief was too much for him and that he desperately needed God to hold him tight.

The verse that some use to support the statement "God never gives us more than we can handle" is 1 Corinthians 10:13, "When you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it" (NIV). But the context of these words is temptation, not suffering. We can choose the way out of temptation that God provides, but we can't choose a way out of suffering.
Jesus Himself wanted a way out of His upcoming suffering when He prayed, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death....O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me" (MATT. 26:38-39). Yet He willingly went through this for our salvation.

When life seems too much to bear, that's when we throw ourselves on God's mercy, and He holds on to us. __Anne Cetas

** With God behind you and His arms beneath you, you can face whatever
lies ahead.

**************************************Today's Bible Reading __ Matthew 26:36-46*************************************

36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called
Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, "Sit here while
I go and pray over there." 37 And He took with Him
peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be
sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38 Then He said to them, "My
soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and
watch with Me."

39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed,
saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from
Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."

40 Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping,
and said to Peter, "What! Could you not watch with Me one
hour? 41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The
spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, "O
My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink
it, Your will be done."

43 Them He came to His disciples and said to them, "Are you
still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the
Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise
let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Despite the fact that the crucifixion of Jesus was
part of the divine plan for the restoration of humanity, Jesus was still
apprehensive about the physical suffering He was about to endure.
this Fear is one of the strongest evidences of His humanity.