His love in Gethsemane

What image, scene or parable comes to mind when you think of Jesus love for us? Perhaps it's his healing of the sick and diseased?, When he wept over Lazarus death?, or his physical crucifixion on the cross? All, I agree, are illustrations of the love Jesus had for people of his time on earth and for us today. I have been focusing lately on the time in the garden of Gethsemane where we see our Lord in extreme distress, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death" (Luke 26:38), and "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from Me" (Luke 26:39). Jesus was distraught at the prospect of having the world's sin's (the cup) punished upon himself. However he followed this up with the ultimate sacrifice, and arguably the point at which He made his most powerful gesture of love towards us, "Yet not as I will, but as You will". Whenever I question if Jesus could really love a ragamuffin sinner like me, I think back to this scene and remember that he has done EVERYTHING, just to be with me and you.