I once had dinner with Dr. Forest Feezor, a 91-year-old retired Baptist preacher who at one time was the executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. I asked him what he would do if he had his life and ministry to live over again. He said, “Really, not very much. I’ve always sought to live by the will of God, and when you have done that, there is not much you would change.”
The will of God, finding it and doing it, is the central issue of the Christian life. It was so for Jesus and it is so for us. My text indicates this. It is the account of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. This is among the most moving scenes in all of the Bible. It follows the inauguration of the Lord’s Supper. After they had broken bread and drunk from the cup, the...