Jesus: "Drink from My Garden"

 

Date: Friday, January 12, 2007

Message:  "Drink from My Garden"

Lord, thank you for speaking this morning, “Drink from my garden.”   

Internally, Lord, you impressed that there are two gardens. In the first garden, the Garden of Eden, mankind took what was not his and wanted to become "like God."  In the second, your garden, the garden of Gethsemane, instead of taking what you deserve, God, instead you gave. You humbled yourself and become nothing, even submitting to death, death on a cross. You gave your entire will, your life, your all. 

And so Lord, this is your garden that you want us to choose.  The Garden of Gethsemane is the Eucharist, the bread and the wine, the body and blood that the Father wishes us to eat and drink from.   

Lord, before the crucifixion, you asked us to drink with you. You said, "Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with? Can you drink from the cup that I'm going to drink from?" Mark 10:38