Freedom Bucks on Cronos

There’s something so profound about the Garden of Gethsemane. After the Last Supper, Christ goes to the garden to pray. He knows on this night he’ll be betrayed, arrested, and then crucified. He asks his three closest disciples, Peter, James, and John, to come with him, to stay awake, and to keep watch. Jesus then goes a short distance away to pray to God the Father. He asks if there’s any other way. What he’s about to endure—the suffering—is something we can’t even comprehend. Nevertheless, he prays, “not as I will, but as you will.” Every time He returns to His disciples, His most loyal companions, He finds them asleep. He says to Peter, “could you not watch with me one hour?” He then warns them about temptation, saying “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” It’s one of the most sobering passages in the Bible, but it gives me great hope as well. God wants us to stay faithful to him, to keep watch, but He also knows we’re human and we’re easily led astray. Christ forgave his disciples and still used all three to establish His church, even though they failed him. Men are weak, but God loves us anyway. Even when we fall short, God is faithful.

I’ve never seen someone say something like “it’s wrong to rape” and a moral subjectivist say “that’s just your opinion, man…” You know why? Because they know it’s not.