OH GETHSEMANE, GETHSEMANE!

OH GETHSEMANE , GETHSEMANE! ©️

Oh Gethsemane, Gethsemane – place of our healing, deliverance and breakthroughs
Beautiful scenic garden, lush with olive groves, paths of tranquility and peace;
Oh Gethsemane, beautiful place – your serenity belies the tearful, agonising pressing of Our Lord;
Crushed in Spirit to release the oil – balm to the weary, sick and broken spirit of troubled man.
In our fragile humanity the purpose of Our Lord’s suffering is revealed.

Oh Gethsemane, Gethsemane – place of our blessings where Jesus in His sorrowing state
travailed over our healing. Suffering Servant – a pitiful figure of a man. In His love
and compassion He raised up marred broken vessels, discarded rejects on life’s dump heap.
Oh Gethsemane, Gethsemane – scented garden abundant in olives, symbolic of Our Lord
profusely burdened on His knees pressing through the veil of sorrow.

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Oh Gethsemane, Gethsemane, beautiful garden – The tears of Our Lord, poured out
in your nooks and crannies. He broke the strength of evil designed to destroy vulnerable souls;
Our Lord pressed into the spiritual deep and prevailed over the works of evil.
Oh Gethsemane, Gethsemane! – verdant groves of olives trees –
a dichotomy of joy, peace, pain and suffering.
Gethsemane, the place where the ‘Balm of Gilead’ pressed through the veil for our healing.

Gwendolyn Smith. ; MARCH 2020