Jesus understands our fears because in His human nature He feared. Through Him we have the privilege of calling on His intervention in our circumstances. We have an advocate to the divine through Him, all man AND all God. His peace He gives to us, not the peace of the world, but the peace of the Godhead to face whatever life throws at us. He was separated from His Father so that we don’t have to be.
It was not the impending physical suffering, as terrible as it would be, that caused Jesus to pray this way; it was the reality of the sinless Son of God bearing the sins of the world and facing separation from His Father. Jesus became a curse for us and took the brunt of God’s righteous wrath against sin.
Matthew 26:39
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.”
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