Request for Change
Once when I was a young man my father did something
similar to what Jesus did on this day. My behaviour needed
to be addressed. My father decided to pray for me. This was
not a prayer to be prayed in the secret closet. He knelt
beside me, forcing me to hear every word he had to say. He
pled his case to heaven's highest court with my ears hearing
every request for change in my life. I would rather have
been physically punished. Words can't describe the emotions
that flooded my mind.
Jesus gathered the disciples, for this, His last prayer
prior to His crucifixion, and publicly spoke to His Father
about what, I feel, He had privately spoken about to His
disciples. He pled for the Father's help in what He already
asked the disciples to do. I wonder, how did the bickering,
prestige-seeking disciples feel when He pled for change in
their hearts?
Tenney, Tommy. God's Dream Team. Ventura, CA: Regal Books,
1999, p. 23-24.