THE GARDENS OF THE LORD
“When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which He entered, and His disciples” John 18:1
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As Jesus, after the last supper with His disciples, walked out with them, they soon crossed over a small brook and entered the little garden called Gethsemane. Eventually He left the disciples and went farther into the garden alone for a time of solitary prayer.
Perhaps He remembered how, long ago, He had walked in His first garden with Adam and Eve in beautiful fellowship. But then they had rebelled against His Word, and had to be expelled from the Garden of Eden, leaving Him alone there also.
As He prayed in Gethsemane, He knew that it would be only a few hours before He would be buried in still another garden, one “wherein was never man yet laid” John 19:41. He would be carried to a new tomb prepared in a newly planted garden by the loving hands of Joseph and Nicodemus, but then He would be alone once again.
He had walked alone in the first garden, seeking His own; then had knelt alone in the second garden, praying for His own; and finally, was buried alone in the third garden, after dying for His own.
But because He came “to seek and to save that which is lost” Luke 19:10, and because He now “ever liveth to make intercession for them” Hebrews 7:25, after paying the awful price of “redemption through His blood” Ephesians 1:7, all those who believe and trust Him will spend eternity in fellowship with Him in a beautiful garden city. Here flows “a pure river of water of life” surrounded on both sides by “the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month” Revelation 22:1-2, and all will be “very good” forever.
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This is so amazing, I just cant get enough of Him!
cumby said,
February 25, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Did you know that the word “garden” is of German origin? “gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten.”
The sweating of blood is a condition called “hematidrosis.”
Like His disciples, in the Garden, Jesus asks us to stay awake with Him and pray. But like them, we are too often overcome with slumber.
heaintthroughwithmeyet said,
February 25, 2007 at 8:24 pm
Hello Cumby,
thanks for your comment, and NO I did not no that…I mean I know Garden means Garten in my language but thats all. LOL
You are so knowledged and I love to read your comments daily!!!
I think of God all the time, I dont know if everybody is like that, but I do. That is also why my heart gets so heavy and I think am I truly a Believer as you can read in the following post.
Thanks Cumby
Love Andrea
Mary Jo Robbins said,
July 19, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I am praying for Team 3. May God bless and keep you and may His Holy Spirit work through you.
Love, Mary Jo