{"id":1110,"date":"2014-12-09T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2015-01-17T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T13:58:41","slug":"in-a-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"In a flash…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know Christmas is coming and we are preparing to celebrate His birth, but over the last few weeks all of my thoughts have been of Him\u00a0in the garden of Gethsemane, suffering in agony to the point of sweating blood.<\/p>\n

What was flashing through His mind\u00a0in those moments? \u00a0What could cause such great emotional pain that it transferred into physically sweating blood?<\/p>\n

Maybe as He knelt there praying He had a moment of life flashing before His eyes. \u00a0 Instead of seeing His own life, He saw all of our lives flash before His eyes as His life. \u00a0As He lived\u00a0each of our lives in His mind, He saw every sin each of us has ever committed, but instead of seeing us He saw Himself committing these grievous, selfish, terrible acts.<\/p>\n

He Himself bore our sins…\u00a0<\/em>– Peter 2:24<\/p>\n

Thank You, forgive me, and I love You\u00a0seem to be the only prayers that come to mind when I think of His\u00a0agony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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