When you’re in Gethsemane, the situation can look hopeless. No matter how desperately you pray, things never seem to get any better. Worst of all, it feels like God has forsaken you. The sense of His nearness that once sustained you seems to have vanished. It feels like you have been left to wander alone in the darkness, stumbling over the wreckage of your world. But you are only seeing with one eye, the natural eye. For those who refuse to give up, who dare to see with both eyes – the natural eye and the spiritual eye – there’s something beyond the darkness, something beyond the pain and brokenness of our shattered world.

“Our present sufferings are not worth comparing
with the glory that will be revealed in us.”

Lord Jesus, help us to look beyond our present circumstances to our eternal destiny. In Your holy name I pray. Amen.