My Cup

There is this great statue on my campus in front of Truett that pretty much sums up my conversations with God these days. It is Jesus in what I presume to be the Garden of Gethsemane. In the Bible Jesus goes here to pray before his capture and crucifixion and He has this amazingly honest and humanly relatable convo with God the Father. "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.'" (Matthew 26:39) See, Jesus isn't just saying this in passing or as a sideline thought. He is agonizing over ALL that is about to happen to him...Nevertheless He chooses God's will. Crucifixion is certainly not my cup, thank God that's been taken care of already...but this is definitely a season of seriously having to trust the Lord in a very real way...so here is the statue

I love the way His hands are just laid at His side and the priceless look on His face. It's like He's saying "Soooo, this is my cup dad? (sigh) well, okay, I trust you"

I soooo feel this! Awesome thing is His eyes are fixed on His Father

"Faith is the gaze of the soul on a saving God."~A.W. Tozer