Gethsemane Poems - Poems about Gethsemane

This is a Repost Today is Good Friday. Jesus, the Nazarene, who robbed no one, cheated no one, who loved all, healed the sick and performed only acts of kindness, when accused guilty and became the victim of gross savagery, didn’t utter a word in self defense, but surrendered to His Father’s will and shed even...

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Gethsemane, And sweat like blood. Disciples quite Misunderstood. Golgotha's cross, Forsaken cry, Misunderstood. Why does he die? In borrowed grave, Cold death entombed. Misunderstood — Disciples' gloom. Alive again! Still disbelieved, Misunderstood By hearts deceived. Misunderstood Today? By you? Know you not what He came to do? See Matthew chapter 26 and Mark chapter 14 ...

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At the Mount of Olives, in a garden called Gethsemane Jesus asked His friends, “Please, will you all stay here and pray with me?” It was after supper and He knew His time would quickly come So, He prayed for strength to do the things that He knew should be done. He looked at His friends and found that...

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In Gethsemane's embrace, where ancient olives dance, A heart, heavy with fate, in the moon's silent trance. A soul laden with grief, a chasm so vast, As the world's weighty sins, upon him were cast. The disciples, in slumber, knew not the strife, The torment that twisted, the silent knife. He lifted his eyes, to the stars above, A plea for another...

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Like a pearl falling into the Pacific, he felt lost. His human nature shrank and shattered like an autumn leaf. Blood poured into sweat. Into his core, he was tempest-tossed. Was he weak yet? Did he feel shaken by his strong belief? Like cyclones shaking a banyan tree, dilemmas shook him. The tug-of-war: to do or not to do, poked...

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Eager Satan was to meet Christ, Refusing to leave until sliced And Jesus did with “Get Behind me!” Satan might have asked “You mean: Me?” And The Bible said “For a time” He must have craved flights of that Time! For Christ waiting at Gethsemane, His fooling around before Many… Into Peter rushing and arming, A servant’s Waiting Ear harming...

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Pt I: The Pilgrims 1991 he’d pick ‘his’ path up as it fell between the dunes toward the wood and as the trees knew him so well they’d all bow down right where he stood and every day with time to pass he’d walk and find his secret seat surrounded by the marram grass divorced from life’s hard grind and heat and there he’d sit...

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After supper Jesus went out to pray his friends kept watch some distance away. “Father, spare me this test, yet you know what is best.” Well fed they did doze to Jesus' dismay. “Could not you keep awake just one hour? Beware lest you fall to the tempter's power. ...

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Grove of olive, silent witness, to a scene of intense struggle, in the soul of Christ our Savior, crushed by grief and agony. See the one who is Creator, of the earth, of trees, and flowers. Stripped of angels’ adoration, lying prostrate on the ground. Grove of olive, silent witness, bow your branches, look, and listen. Hear his cries of earnest pleading, in that awful, dreaded...

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Sonnet VI (HE’s Still Hanging There) HE’s still hanging there (figuratively) After being judged, mocked, crowned with thorns, scourged; Then crucified for the sins of the world. HE’s still on that cross (figuratively). An endless sacrifice for all mankind – How much blood was sweat in Gethsemane, As the song says “to save a wretch like me”? I wish so many of...

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God painted this portrait of emerald and crimson Soothing my soul with the brilliant and vivid Colors of miracles caressing my heart and spirit Breathing out whispers of sentiments that touch me With a sense of faith in all that gives hope in this world God graced the misty mountain morning with a touch Of joy and inspiration that comes from...

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"Not my will, but thine be done". Though his mortal flesh was weak, Yet these words God's only Son In his darkest hour did speak. True obedience demands That we oft repeat this prayer - Doing all the Lord commands, Giving him our every care. Like the prodigal, my choice Is to fly to foreign lands, Heeding not the Father's voice: "Child, thy life is in...

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Tears in the Garden of Gethsemane were in a downpour They ran deep in the cracks of pain of a divine soul There was an endurance of a struggle to repress the world’s evils An anguish that could not edify Jesus' slumbering disciples The passing of that grief was beyond what scripture could show The rain hanged in the clouds...

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Gethsemane in Every Breath by Michael R. Burch Did heaven ever seem so far? Remember?we are as You were, but all our lives, from birth to death? Gethsemane in every breath. Originally published by First Things as "A Possible Argument for Mercy." Keywords/Tags: Gethsemane, Calvary, Crucifixion, Atonement, Suffering, Cross, Blood, Sweat, Tears, Death, Last Breath, Last Words,...

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God is waiting to meet us in a garden called Gethsemane Essential to our relationship with God is spending time with Him There will always be a 'battle royal of temptations' to avoid this place Human-defined happiness and personal fulfillment cannot be found here Serenity to God's will is the highest achievement to be found in Gethsemane Emptying of our...

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