Natural Ways to Cope
Rejection by the masses, ridicule by religious leaders, abandonment by disciples, and suffering from the Romans combined in the culminating event of the Messiah’s earthly life. He made it through that horrible experience by appealing to resources outside himself: the angel that “ministered to him” in the Garden, prayer to the Father, commitment to the purpose inside of “your will, not mine” and looking to the future joy beyond the present pain.
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