Questions

What scenarios in your life have led you to desperate prayer?

When is your most honest prayer?

When was a time you called others to pray with you?

Meditation

In this station, we have the cup of death juxtaposed against the serpent of temptation. Jesus found Himself in a garden desperately praying about what lay ahead of Him… the road to death.The road we will walk as we go through these stations, just like countless have contemplated for two thousand years.

I’ve never had a future in front of me where I knew that if I kept going, I’d suffer horrible torture at the hands of imperial powers, and I would slowly die on one of the worst execution devices ever created by human beings.

That said. I get tempted.

The road ahead of me is not an execution device. Thank God. But constantly on all our roads is a temptation to go our way and not what God desires. We need to say YES to God’s plans and God’s direction.

“Father, take this cup from me. But not my will, but Yours be done.”

We are betrayed. We feel abandoned. Temptation hits and drives us to a depth of unfathomable despair. Maybe not always deep despair, but we do get tempted and need to remember we can call upon Him as we surrender to His ways.

What does it take to drive you to your knees and reach out to our Lord? And we also need to share our needs with others and join together in prayer.

Closing Prayer: Lord Jesus, give me Your wisdom that I may stay focused on Your will for my life.