Jesus and Injustice

Jesus asks his disciples to pray as he prayed because he is not only the object of our justifying faith but also the example of our justifying faith. Jesus suffered more than anyone else. This can be said because Jesus was the sole person in the world who faced the greatest injustice. He was also betrayed by his close fiend. These are intensified by Jesus' agonies in the garden of Gethsemane as he anticipated the dreaded cross. The physical pain of astounding proportions precedes the overflowing enduring of the wrath of God against the sins of his people. Jesus' horror at being made sin was exactly the right response to that prospect. This is a demonstration of all of the attributes of God. As an equal expression of those attributes, Jesus sets up and faces those terrors alone. As you watch him moving resolutely toward the cross as your object of faith, do you imitate him as the example of your faith- You may pray and you may still suffer.