Only at Gethsemane do we get such an intimate glimpse at the full range of human emotions that Jesus Christ experienced. Here we see him frustrated with his disciples over their inability to stay awake at the most crucial hour. We see him wrestle with his calling, struggling to submit to God’s will. Most importantly, we also see him calling out to his heavenly Daddy (Abba is literally ‘daddy’) as a child would cry out to their earthly fathers in a dire moment.
I don’t believe that it is any coincidence that this crucial event took place in a garden. It was in the first garden that Adam succumbed to temptation, so God placed the second Adam, Jesus Christ, in this garden to submit to God’s will. Because Jesus chooses to submit to God’s will and offer himself as a sacrifice, he has freed all of us from the curse brought upon us by the first Adam! (For a passage dealing with the comparisons between the ‘first Adam’ and the ‘second Adam,’ Jesus Christ, please read Romans 5:12-21).
Our choice is simple: who will you follow? Will you choose to follow the example of the first Adam and choose your own will and death, or will you choose to follow the example of the second Adam, Jesus Christ, humble yourself under God’s mighty hand, and thus choose life?
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