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                      We all internally struggle with many things. I personally struggle with forgiveness. And the greatest example of all times is Jesus. He forgave everyone who were involved with his public execution, starting from his close disciples who were literally his shadow for 3 years of his public ministry to Judas who betrayed him to Peter who refused to be associated with him to the Roman authorities, Jewish leaders and the crowd who hanged him. He forgave everyone!          We see in Genesis 45: 5, Joseph is doing the same to his brothers, forgiving them and telling them to not be angry with yourselves because it was all part of God’s plan and then again in Genesis 50:20, assuring them that he will not harm them (the brothers) but God bought out good out of an evil deed. And through that others could be saved. Joseph reassures them t...

Mark 14:34- " My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death......"          Jesus uses the words "exceedingly sorrowful " expressing his distress so intense that it felt like death. He describes his overwhelming grief and equates it with physical death .           We know on earth, Jesus was completely God who performed various miracles but at the same time was completely human who had gone through experiences a human being goes through in his lifetime. This verse is one such human experience of him being overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death!       Jesus fell to the ground in that overwhelming grief and prayed by first reminding and telling God all things are possible by you (V36) and so take this suffering away from me but then again let Your Will be done.    We all at some point in our life have gone through or will go through sufferings and sometimes those sufferings might feel like deat...