In Matthew 20:22 is written something interesting. I think it is because even if I were a mother, but I think I wouldn’t have the guts to come to Jesus and ask him to put my sons beside him when he is in heaven. I think “what a bold request!” Maybe Jesus thought so too, because he replied, “You do not know what you are asking; are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” He was thinking about the cross. Which of us would voluntarily want to endure what Jesus did for the sake of others? For the sake of those, those very ones who were putting him there? Are you able? I am not, and for that, I am eternally grateful that Jesus did. Even if I thought I would be able, what meaning it would have? I am a sinner, I have no merit on my own. I could not take his place on that cross, my own cross is heavy enough for me I have to count on his help to carry my own cross because I am not able. I could never carry the weight of the world. By the end of this passage, Jesus s...
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