Overwhelming Love

Matthew 26:38-39 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” 39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
 
PERHAPS this is the best place, short of the cross, where we can see that “God so loved the world.” (John 3:16a). Consider “How deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure that he should give his only Son to make a wretch his treasure”. (from “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us” by Philips, Craig and Dean)
    Yes, deep in his soul Jesus is “overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death”. He knows the evil he is about to encounter; he knows how his own people will reject and kill him; and he knows his Father will forsake him so that many born dead in sin, separated from God, will have salvation in his blood.
    Jesus also knows he will experience what each one of us hates the most – complete isolation. It's as if all mankind and even his Father in Heaven are accusing him. “What do you think?" "He is worthy of death," they answered. Then they spit in his face. (Matthew 26:66-67) Yes, how deep the Father’s love for you that he would subject his Holy Son to the world’s hateful passions.
    Loving the Father and loving you, Jesus will complete his earthly work. Deeply his soul suffers so that you will never need to feel that overwhelming oppression. Jesus takes on the isolation, the accusations and the condemnation, so you won't have to - ever.
    What troubles you this day? Call on the One who has suffered overwhelming grief in his soul, even to the point of death for you. Trust his redemption. Live in joy that Jesus has done this for you.
 
The Bible Teaches: God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21