"He was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us
peace,
and with his stripes we are healed."

Do you know what Gethsemane means literally? Place of crushing, or so Michael Card tells us, because it was a place where olives were crushed for their oil. Interesting that the crushing of our Savior began here in the garden.

This is the place where he cried out to God, His Father, to let the cup of His wrath pass from him. Three times he begged God to remove the cup from him. Three times he agonized about what obedience was going to mean for him. And three times: "Not my will, but Thine, be done," just as he taught us to pray in the Lord's Prayer.

Michael Card: Obedience is perfected not in doing something you want to do but in doing the last thing in the world you want to do. And the book of Hebrews: Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. This is why God through Isaiah calls Jesus a Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with grief. He bore our griefs and carried our sorrows, and it began that night in a garden when he willingly and willfully submitted to the will of his Father.

Truly he was crushed. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. (Hebrews 5:9-10)

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!