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I think one of the most amazing passages in the whole Bible is in the second part of verse 39, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” It is amazing to me that even though Jesus realizes the amount of suffering he will have to endure for us, He still chooses to follow God’s plan. I’m not sure I could knowingly go into the kind of suffering Jesus had to endure. It makes it that much more incredible and precious to me that He has so much love for us.
Daily Devotion 
My heart breaks for Peter in this moment. Mr. Emotional. Mr. Impulsive. He loves Jesus. Though he still doesn’t get it, this is his friend. Jesus is probably the first person to ever know him intimately and love him in spite of all his failings. Though he doesn’t understand everything that is going on, what he does understand is that this is probably his closest friend ever in life. He knows that Jesus has walked with him through very hard times and never left his side.
And then he denies him. The Message says when he heard the rooster crow, he went out “and cried and cried and cried.” Oh, the heartache. A heartache that reaches deeper within the heart than most any pain. The kind that feels like it will never end. My heart breaks for him.
But at the same time, I rejoice. This moment was his watershed moment. I like to think that the rest of his life, he thought back to these moments, the utter despair he felt over what he’d done to his friend, master and, later to understand, Savior, and said, “Never again.”
While I won’t say that we all “need” these moments in our lives, part of me thinks we actually do. There is nothing like utter brokeness over the realization of your own brokeness to change your heart and decisions for the rest of your life.
I sure love Peter. I can’t wait to meet him. He is the everyman.
Well said Sarah! Of all the characters in the Bible, I most closely relate to Peter. I love my Savior, yet I am constantly battling my own weaknesses of the moment!