He cried out loudly and He was heard. Praise God! Today's short thoughts come from Hebrews 5:7 where the author wrote, "In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety."
It is one thing for men to cry out to a God they do not know and do not worship. They may even pray to God, hoping that if He does exist He will hear them and perhaps answer them. The Apostle John was inspired to teach that a man cannot truly know God if he does not know God's Son, Jesus. He wrote that the "one who does not believe God ", regarding the truth of His Son, "has made Him a liar".
But we see in today's passage, that in His humanity, Jesus prayed to "the One able to save Him from death". His was not a prayer of aimless hope and unknowing expectation. No, He knew where to take His prayers and supplications. He went to "the One able to save Him from death" with full assurance that He could. As He bids us to come to the throne of grace, may we go in faith, believing in the One who calls us there!
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