In Green Pastures
Daily Readings for Every Day in the Year
December 2
A Stone’s-Cast Further
Jesus took his chosen friends with him into Gethsemane. Those who
love us most truly must share our sorrow with us. But it is noteworthy, also,
that Jesus himself went deeper into the shadows of the garden than he asked his
friends to go. Is not this fact most suggestive? We need not fear that in any
grief of ours we shall ever be alone, without companionship. We shall never
find ourselves in shadows too deep for the sympathy and help of the Christ.
However far into the garden of sorrow we may ever be led, if we lift up our
eyes we shall see that Jesus is on before us, a stone's-cast further than he
has asked us to go.
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