The Last Struggle

At the beginning of Holy Week we reflect on the road to Calvary and the road to Victory. The experience in Gethsemane appears to be a significant step in the process. I wondered as I read the account in Isaiah how Jesus was quite calm on the final path to Calvary. Isaiah wrote "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, He opened not His mouth". So no struggle! But in Gethsemane the exchange with His father is a little more difficult as His humanity rises above His divinity but still resulted in "If it be thy will let this cup pass from me". Gethsemane is where Jesus worked out the final plan and received the resolve to handle Calvary. You would have thought there would been more of a struggle being nailed to the Cross..but once He gained the conviction and the renewing of strength to walk in the will of God..the actual event became less of an ordeal. Calvary is the closing credits of the final scene but the action really happened in the garden. The struggle is not going through the challenge but making up your mind to go through the challenge..so Gethsemane is always our last struggle!
Until then!