There is no Easter, without Good Friday and there is no Good Friday without the Garden-Part 2

What possess an innocent man, one who has lived His entire life in love and peace to lay His life down for a guilty one?  How does He endure being arrested as a common criminal, bound and dragged before the religious people, who had already decided that "it would be good if one man died for the people?"  It was clear that a fair trial would not be possible among the very people He had actually come to save.  How did he stand silently during the false testimony of paid witnesses?  Did His heart break at the abandonment of his closest friends and their denials of even knowing Him? 

What possess a man to endure being beat and whipped, having His very flesh torn and pulled apart for the very people who rejected Him?  What causes Him to pick up and carry the very cross that He would soon be nailed to?  What enables Him to allow the Roman soldiers to nail His wrists and feet to this cross?  What causes Him to pray for the very people who are insulting Him as His life blood runs out where they are walking?

What possess a man to do these things?  A man who has been swept away with the knowledge of who his Father is, who He is in His Father's kingdom and what He was created for.

Do you know these things for yourself? 
Take a few moments today, on God's Friday, to be swept away and reflect on these questions as you listen to this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIWlqa3xds