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马太福音26:36-39：不要照我的意思，只要照你的意思
36耶稣同门徒来到一个地方，名叫客西马尼，就对他们说：“你们坐在这里，等我到那边去祷告。”37于是带着彼得和西庇太的两个儿子同去，就忧愁起来，极其难过，38便对他们说：“我心里甚是忧伤，几乎要死，你们在这里等候，和我一同警醒。”39他就稍往前走，俯伏在地祷告说：“我父啊，倘若可行，求你叫这杯离开我；然而，不要照我的意思，只要照你的意思。”
当那夜，在园中，全世界的重担都压在耶稣的肩上。他将要忍受的一切决定着人类永恒的未来。他明白他必须忍耐的一切无法用“可怕”这个词来描述。一个从来没有犯过罪的人却为我们成为了罪。
你能想象吗？不，我们做不到。我们能感受到自己罪愆带来的重担就已经足够了。夜晚，我们辗转反侧，罪恶带来的痛苦比任何其他痛苦都多。我们无法逃脱，除了确信上帝藉着基督带来的赦免。我们等待那被祝福的一天，到那时，耶稣会再来使我们恢复完全的圣洁，到那时，罪恶和羞耻也会全然消失。
但是等待耶稣的却不是原谅。为了我们的缘故，他必须忍受地狱中无尽的绝望。他说他心里甚是忧伤，几乎要死。他是如此难过，以至于俯伏在地，祈求天父上帝寻找其他成就的方式。但是他祷告说：“不要照我的意思，只要照你的意思。”为了我们，我们的救主受苦何其多！
当我们想到他受的苦难，我们还能轻看自己的罪恶吗？我们还能不全心颂赞他吗？他承担了本该属于我们的一切，使我们明白我们生命中的罪已被赦免，而且有一天我们将和他永远活在无罪的圣洁之中。
祷告：主耶稣啊，你是我的力量、我的拯救！我还惧怕谁呢？最让我感到害怕的不是别人会对我做什么，而是我自己会做什么。请教导我要谦卑、每日悔改，并相信只有你是我的拯救和力量。当我跌倒的时候，请快快地重新建造我。阿们！
Matthew 26
Matthew 26:36–39: Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” 37 He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” 39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
The weight of the world was on Jesus’ shoulders that night in the garden. What he was about to endure would determine the eternal future of mankind. He saw what he must endure, and it was beyond horrible. The one who knew no sin would become sin for us.
Can you imagine that? No, we can’t. It is enough for us to feel the weight of our own guilt. It troubles us in the night. It distresses us more than anything else. We can’t escape it, except in the assurance of God’s forgiveness in Christ. We wait for that blessed day when Jesus will come and restore us to innocence, when guilt and shame will be no more.
But there was no pardon waiting for Jesus. He must endure the hopelessness of hell for our sakes. He said that his soul was overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. He was so troubled that he begged with his face to the ground that his heavenly Father might find some other way than this. And he prayed, “Not as I will, but as you will.” Oh, how our Savior suffered for us!
Can we ever take our sins lightly, when we think of how he suffered for us? Can we ever stop praising him with our whole hearts? He endured what was owed us so that we might live our lives knowing that we are forgiven and that someday we will dwell with him in guilt-free innocence forever.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, you are my strength and my salvation! Of whom shall I be afraid? What terrifies me most, Lord, is not what others can do to me, but what I myself am capable of doing. Teach me to be humble and to repent daily and to trust in you alone for my salvation and my strength. And when I fall, restore me quickly! Amen.