"And there will be Sorrow no more....."

 "Then he said to them, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me." - Matthew 26:38

Sorrow may come like a cloud of gloom, but our vision of it may not be deep, lest we never be awakened to the hope that awaits.

It's somewhat comforting, although in a contradistinctive sense than that of man. The wholeness of our savior's human nature - his soul - was inhabited deep affliction and vast melancholy. Our sorrows  are rarely borne from the presence of the spirit, rather when we draw at a distance,  situate ourselves in places foreign to the spirit in which we co-habitate. Our further dissociation with the promises we have come to recognize as believers lends us to the cumbersome malaise that God is not present. In "Beginning to Pray", Anthony Bloom tells that "True prayer precludes all conscious and unconscious attempts to manipulate God," in so much as in our endeavor of manipulating the promises to fit our ends, we have lowered ourselves to a plane beneath the fullness of him.

Spurgeon excises this to sat that ours pleas to God need not feel like a shout to an empty sky, but rather an urge to what is already complete.


"If you have a divine promise, you need not plead it with an "if," you may urge it with certainty. The Lord meant to fulfil the promise, or he would not have given it. God does not give his words merely to quiet us, and to keep us hopeful for awhile with the intention of putting us off at last; but when he speaks, it is because he means to do as he has said"

 In Genesis 32, When Jacob was on the side of the brook being pursued by Esau was coming with his army, Jacob sought God's protection, and to him he pleaded, "And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good." The plea was not borne of aloofness or braggadocio, rather of the sorrow that brooded over his coming moments. In so much that man is capable, he was holding God to his word when he said, "Thou saidst."

The sufferings of death are the most in which we will ever be knowledgeable of; such it is and those sufferings are therefore put forth incommunicable anguish. The meaning of the verse might be deciphered as: My sorrows are so abundant that the weight of the burden shall crush me; for with this anxiety of mind, I seem to endure what is greater than death!

Jesus is warning his disciples to abstain from sleep, be vigilant, and be on guard against danger. in doing so, he is sympathetic to their plight,  and encourages unity in the pursuit of divine support, and to forever be ready for advancing dangers.

Just as Christ used the sorrow to fulfill what is to come, so must we be vigilant in our pursuit of divine support.