When Trouble Is Already on the Way: The Forgotten Hymn Before Gethsemane
Chapter 1: The Night Had Already Changed There are mornings when you wake before the alarm because your mind has already started carrying the day. The room is dark, the house is quiet, and your phone is on the nightstand. You already know what is waiting on it: the message you are afraid to open, the appointment you cannot cancel, the conversation you know will be difficult, or the bill you are not sure how you are going to pay. You have not even put your feet on the floor, and tomorrow’s pressure has already reached into today. That is why the small biblical detail behind Jesus singing a hymn before the Mount of Olives matters so much. It is not a decorative sentence placed between the Last Supper and Gethsemane. It is a picture of what faith can look like when you know a hard night is coming. Matthew and Mark both tell us that after the meal, Jesus and His disciples sang a hymn and then went out toward the Mount of Olives. Most of us move quickly past that line because we kno...