Beautiful Pain

Like he said, this is the story of Jesus' sacrifice which can also be a story of our sacrifice. Jesus is the ultimate example for everything...especially when it comes to sacrificing our lives. I think that sometimes we assume it was easy for Jesus to die because He is God in the flesh. But He was also human.
It was HARD.
Excruciating anticipation.
Unfathomable pain.

Sacrificing hurts. a lot. but Jesus still died willingly. So how are we going to react to that? Because of grace, we have the ability to react with nothing; because of redemption, we realize we owe Him everything.

Our lives should be a picture of the garden:
painful sacrifice
willing sacrifice
loving sacrifice

Sacrifice:
"the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something 
considered as having a higher or more pressing claim." ~Dictionary.com