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Max Lucado Daily Devotional

A Request for Strength

Max Lucado Daily Devotional

Max Lucado

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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The Bible that I carried as a child contained a picture of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. He seemed...

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This is Max Locato. The Bible that I carried as a child contained a picture of Jesus in the garden of

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Gassimini. He seemed peaceful. Yet one reading of the Gospels disrupts that image.

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Mark says Jesus fell to the ground.

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According to Luke, Jesus was full of pain.

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Luke 22 in verse 44. What do we do with this image of Jesus?

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Simple. We read it when we feel the same. We read it when we feel afraid.

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For isn't it likely that fear was one of the emotions Jesus felt? He saw something in the future, so fear, so foreboding that he begged for a change of plans. Father, if you're willing, take away this cup of suffering.

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How remarkable that Jesus felt such fear, but how kind that he told us about it.

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We see no mask of strength, but we do hear a request for strength, and the fact that he prayed

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invites us to do the same.

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