To be rejected by all His close friends.
To be left alone, to face the whips, thorns, humiliation, the spits, the punches, the nails, the cross, all by Himself.
To proclaim a message no one believed.
To proclaim and give love to those who give hatred in return.
To be antagonized by His own suffocating thoughts of facing the cross alone, and to be hung up there as an innocent party with tow other criminals.
To be dealt with unjustly.
(Recall how much you boiled the last time, while you were falsely accused by your parents for doings something you never did. Now Jesus face a death penalty that He does not deserve. Vindicated? Far from it.)
Having the power to reject the cross, yet out of love choosing to hold on to it.

I thought all this was bad enough till i read the following extract:


It was not the prospect of physical suffering which brought the agony in the Garden. That was nothing compared to the torture of His spirit. It was the anguish of a pure soul who knew no sin, facing the injustice of being "made sin" (2nd Cor. 5.21), of being so completely identified with as not only to forfeit the fellowship of His father, but to become the object of the Father's loathing. This was no mere legal imputation of sin. He was made sin. He became the very essence of sin by dying as a sin offering.

Beyond The Veil - Alice Smith

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I literally said, "God, i am sorry." When i read the extract.

I knew that my sufferings will never exceed Jesus'.
We have always suffered under the covering of the grace of God, with Him holding our hand real tight.
Refusing to let us go, even when our hand lost grip and at times even struggle to loosen ourselves from the grip of our Heavenly Father.
What Jesus went through was a journey where God literally turned His face from His Son.
To be left without the grace of God, to NOT have God s hand guiding you through the tormenting journey, was absolutely...

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The grace of God will always be deeper than the deepest valley you tread.