FINISHED Part 1

 Part 1 -  The Dark Knight Before The Cross

Behold, the son of God in the sacred, scandalous garden of Gethsemane.The high king laid low the fountain of all joy saying, my soul is so deeply grieved I could die right now.The air thick with anguish, torment, heartbreak.The kiss of the disciple of betrayal soon to reverberate through the branches of the olive trees that engulfed the garden. 

God had come to man to bring man to God, and man responded with crucifixion.Feel the weight of the sinfulness of sin, that given the chance, sin would try to kill God himself. Behold the son of God, perfectly good, perfectly righteous, but now perfectly sorrowful. Alone, desperate for the prayers of his friends, but none will be found. Oh, lord and savior, how heavy was that night before you would die?


What could bring the Lord of glory to thrice ask for deliverance from what he was about to endure? Was it the failure and fickleness of those who followed you? Was it the pending torture of the Roman crucifixion?And perhaps even worse that the beating, the spitting, the suffocation would be done by those you love? Or was it the hours you would spend taking on on the sins of the world under the full weight of the father's infinitely holy anger?

Were you, oh Lord, bracing yourself for the first moment ever that you would have to say, Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani, my God, why have you forsaken me? Behold, the sacred scandalous garden of Gethsemane.
The redemption of the garden of Eden. This is the tale of two Adams. Unlike the fruit that charmed the first Adam, this cup of suffering offered no deceit, no trickery, just straight reality of the cost of redemption.

This is the exchange of the failure of Eden for the faithfulness of the garden, to a tree resulting in death. In Gethsemane, Jesus crushes the head of the serpent by going to a tree that  in life. Oh dear brother and sister, stand in awe of the sacred scandalous Garden Of Gethsemane.


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