Are you struggling with the fear of the holidays and how they make you feel? Are you focused on the size of your worries and not the size of your Savior? I hope to point you in a direction where it’s not always easy, but Jesus is there. He knows what you’re worried about and how it makes you anxious or fearful. He knows you want to run and hide and that you wonder if you’ll make it out alive.
Remember the night when Jesus left the city and went to the Mount of Olives, and his followers went with him? When he reached the place, he said to them, “Pray for strength against temptation.”
Then Jesus went about a stone’s throw away from them, knelt, and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, take away this cup of suffering. But do what you want, not what I want.” Then an angel from heaven appeared to him to strengthen him. Being full of pain, Jesus prayed even harder. His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. (Luke 22:39–44) I imagine you can see the face of Jesus when reading those verses. He saw something in the future so fierce, so foreboding that he begged for a change of plans. “Father, if you are willing, take away this cup of suffering” (Luke 22:42).
