Garden of Gethsemane: Holy fear
Thy will be done.
I didn't really know the full impact of such a prayer until push came to shove and following God meant walking away from the man I thought I would marry in college. Looking back, I think, "Thank God!" I couldn't put my faith in the God my boyfriend believed in - a God that said women couldn't be pastors (and a lot of other things). But walking away from someone I loved - was one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life.
Thy will be done.
We can't fully live the life God desires for us, if we don't have the courage to go where God is leading us.
Perhaps what we can take from Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane is this: even in our holy fear, the most important thing to do is pray, be in conversation with God, to gain strength for whatever we must do.
Have you ever been in a place of holy fear?
- Melanie
I didn't really know the full impact of such a prayer until push came to shove and following God meant walking away from the man I thought I would marry in college. Looking back, I think, "Thank God!" I couldn't put my faith in the God my boyfriend believed in - a God that said women couldn't be pastors (and a lot of other things). But walking away from someone I loved - was one of the most difficult things I have ever done in my life.
Thy will be done.
We can't fully live the life God desires for us, if we don't have the courage to go where God is leading us.
Perhaps what we can take from Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane is this: even in our holy fear, the most important thing to do is pray, be in conversation with God, to gain strength for whatever we must do.
Have you ever been in a place of holy fear?
- Melanie
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