April 11, 1963

Meditations by B. C. Money

Tis midnight and on olives brow, a star is dimmed that lately shown, tis midnight in the garden now, the suffering Saviour prays alone. As we see our Saviour as he makes his way to the garden of sorrow where he left his three trusted disciples asking them to watch with him while he went a little farther falling on his face pouring out his soul in agony until his sweat became as great drops of blood. Forsaken by his disciples that he had so recently prayed for that they be kept from the evils of the world. Peter, that had so recently pledged his loyalty to him saying that he would never forsake him and would even die for him could not watch one hour and let Judas betray him with a kiss and while Jesus’ enemies falsely accused him he denied him three times and when the cock crew his Lord turned and looked at him and then he remembered and went out and wept bitterly.