Garden of Gethsemane : The Inner Strugge Overcamed

 

1. Simon Peter, being armed with a sword, cut off the servant's ear in an attempt to prevent the arrest of Jesus.

2. Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter.

3. “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

From these 3 verses we can can allude that Jesus is in possession of his mental and emotional faculties. He still has the presence of mind and in control of his emotion. When Peter strike and cut off the Roman soldier's ear in retaliation to the arrest of Jesus, Jesus instead reach out to heal the soldier. 

Mentally he know the road before him. The arrest, the betrayal and Crucifixion and ultimately Death, He accepted his fate mentally and emotionally he kept it under control. 

The struggle he has therefore is not in the realm of Intellect/Mental/Logic/Rationale or Emotion/Feeling but rather something deeper, something more Raw. More than the 40days of Desert Temptations. For this touch his very soul, his very being. It exposed :
1. his human weakness,
2. his insecurities, 

3. His vulnerabilities
4. his fears

5. his own need for survival

6. His sense of injustice (maybe)

He has to overcome the deficiencies at the Soul level. Not so much the external circumstances or situation but what they expose in his internal psyche. It is himself that he has to overcome. 

And because He overcame and could say "Be of Good Cheer for I have overcome the world" John 16:33. Its not so much he has conquered the world but he has overcame his inner deficiencies while dealing with the external circumstances. Thus he say Be of Good Cheer becasue the same Spirit that has helped him will also help us in times of Trouble.