Go To Dark Gethsemane
Go to Dark Gethsemane
Go to dark Gethsemane,
Ye that feel the tempter’s power;
Your Redeemer’s conflict see;
Watch with Him one bitter hour;
Turn not from His griefs away;
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
See Him at the judgment hall,
Beaten, bound, reviled, arraigned;
See Him meekly bearing all!
Love to man His soul sustained.
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;
Learn of Christ to bear the cross.
Calvary’s mournful mountain climb;
There adoring at His feet,
Mark that miracle of time,
God’s own sacrifice complete;
“It is finished!” hear Him cry;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.
Early hasten to the tomb
Where they laid His breathless clay:
All is solitude and gloom;
Who hath taken Him away?
Christ is risen! He meets our eyes.
Savior, teach us so to rise.
STEP BY STEP James Montgomery takes us through Christ’s passion. We go with our Lord to the Garden of Gethsemane. It was a difficult time, and in Montgomery’s simple text we feel each drop of sweat. At Jesus’ trial—a shabby excuse for justice if ever there was one—He bore the beating and badgering without speaking a word. He was carrying our sins with Him to the Cross. At the Cross we can only fall at His feet in worship.
When we finally reach the tomb, we find He is not there. There is a moment of confusion—who has taken Him?—before the truth dawns on us. He is risen!
At each point of this journey we have much to learn from our Savior. We can learn to pray when tempted and to endure suffering with patience. And Christ teaches us to rise in newness of life, to live in a way that honors Him, and ultimately to join Him in glory.
They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!”
Matthew 27:28-29
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