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As we near unto Resurrection Sunday, what some

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folks call Easter, I find myself mindful of what

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Jesus endured for our sins. The scourging, the

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beating with a rod, the mocking, the actual crucifixion,

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the suffocation, and death, and being buried

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in a borrowed tomb. It was horrible what he went

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through. And before he went through it, in Matthew

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chapter... 26, verse 42, it says that Jesus went

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away a second time into the garden, praying,

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saying, My Father, if this cup cannot pass away

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unless I drink from it, your will be done. I'd

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say this is a model example. We talk about the

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Lord's Prayer sometimes. We talk about our Father

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who art in heaven. The truth is, I think this

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is the Lord's Prayer. Also, there was a prayer

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for unity. I think we need to realize that sometimes

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life is hard. There's suffering, difficulty.

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Sometimes it's weeks, months, years, decades.

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We don't understand why some things happen. But

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we do know that if we didn't have the grace of

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Jesus Christ, if we weren't saved, we'd go to

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hell. And therefore, all the suffering that we

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face, I mean, we're doomed. Far worse, I guess.

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Say to God today, I don't like what I'm going

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through, and I'd like you to change it. But regardless,

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your will be done, not my will.