Have you ever been sorrowful? Have you ever been troubled? Have you ever been overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death? Have you ever had a challenge you did not want to face?

Our Lord and Saviour was in a situation like that, when he said, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” Matthew 26:26-39. The Lord asked three of his disciples to watch with him – but he found them sleeping – three times. Read Matthew 26:36-46

Proverbs 14:10 says,” Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy.”

Bitterness, sorrow, trouble — and you have to go it alone — but not without the Lord. Only the other day I read, “A True Friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” The Lord Jesus Christ is a True Friend! He will be also with us, when we go through the valley of death according to his promise in Matthew 28:20, “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

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