If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

Proverbs 24:10 ESV

Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, 

"Sit here while I go over there to pray."

He took Peter and Zebedee's two sons, James and John, and he became anguished and distressed. He told them, "My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me."

He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground, praying,

"My Father! 

If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine."

Matthew 26:36-39 NLT

Jesus day if adversity was upon him. His hands did drop. His strength didn't seem enough because of the enormity of what he was facing, and he asked his team to journey with him.

To enter in with him.

And he prayed to his (and our) Heavenly Father. 

Perhaps more accurately Jesus was giving away his strength. Giving it away so that all the sin, all the evil, all of the ugly stuff of this world in. Sin and evil have no place in God's son, yet he was going to let it all in, to overwhelm himself, for one reason.

Because Jesus loves us.

Loves you.

And says you're worth it. 

On Jesus' day of adversity, when strength seemed small, he showed us the way, to pray to our heavenly Father, and not go it alone but to ask others to walk with you. 

#whanau

#inthistogether