When Agonizing Becomes Exemplary Agony is a common-to-man reality. In our current vocabulary, people agonize over decisions all the time: what car to buy, what school to send our children to, how we’ll ever afford college, why we got passed over for that promotion, etc. The word can lose a bit of its luster when we use it in this way. But sometimes really heavy things happen in life that result in real, deep agony: unexpected death, stage 4 cancer diagnoses, a school shooting in our city. When we ourselves agonize over life, typically, we are in a battle between unbelief and faith. It’s a roller coaster ride. We can likely point to examples of people who agonized well, though imperfectly, on the whole. We can also point to folks who were totally undone and shipwrecked. The Lord Jesus Christ knows agony better than any of us. And the object of His agonizing is very informative for us. In the garden of Geths...
Reflections on a life lived for King Jesus.