“Father, if you are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” As Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane, his first request is for his father to “take this cup of suffering away from me” Luke 22:42 (ESV)
Let not mercy and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart and so find favor...
But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree...
The hypocritical thief is personified by Judas, who took secretly his part from the money Jesus and the apostles raised for helping the poor;...
