For the Troubled Heart~
"Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me." ~ Jesus These are tender words from a tender Savior. They overflow from Jesus' own deeply troubled heart as He reclines at the table with His disciples for what would be His last supper with them before He would be betrayed, denied, abandoned, tortured, mocked and crucified. He has explained to them that one of them will betray Him. In other Gospel accounts, we read that He also tells the disciples that all of them will fall away, and Peter specifically will deny Him three times. How devestating Jesus' words would have been to the disciples hearts as they are faced with a future in which their master, teacher, and friend has just told them that they will all end up failing Him. And what does Jesus say to them next? Out of the depths of His troubled heart, that would be broken for them, He comforts them. We can be certain that as believers the comfort that Jesus offers to us