Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. When he rose from prayer and went back to the disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow. “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them. “Get up and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.”

“Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” Jesus speaks these words to his disciples, yet one can’t help wondering if he speaks aloud the words He needs to hear in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Take some time to ask God to bring to mind a moment in which you struggled to do what you felt you should. Consider what submitting to the Father’s will in this moment meant for Jesus.