We’ve made it to Jesus’ point of no return in His journey to the cross; a
well-known scene in the garden of Gethsemane, where He will beseech his
followers to stay awake and pray with him as He pleads with His Father for
another way. The language used builds to a picture of abject horror, and is
another picture of human Jesus displaying the holiness of a raw emotional
response that we should come to when we face loss, death and pain in this
life.

Of course, Jesus’ horror is beyond anything we will ever face,  and
embedded within this scene is some vital theology. Did the Father send
Jesus to do battle with death and darkness on the cross to satisfy His
wrath (our reformation forefathers would have us think so)? Or did the
triune God, together, devise this ancient plan to redeem their beloved
world from the very beginning?

A clear understanding on this can change the way we read all that tricky
stuff in the Old Testament, and revolutionize what it is to be included in
this divine relationship, for all of us.

By Hannah Flint

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