Two days prior to the crucifixion, our Lord Jesus went through a tremendous amount of tension and apprehension. First, there was the upper room where He told His companions, who had walked with Him for three years, that one of them was about to betray Him.

That was followed by Gethsemane, where our Lord was sweating blood, asking the Father if there was some other way that this cup could pass, that His people could be redeemed. Then there was the tension and the apprehension of His arrest in Gethsemane. Following His arrest, He was dragged back and forth from one place of interrogation to another for a total of six interrogations. Jesus was then flogged before being hung on the cross with nails tearing His hands and feet.

No wonder His soul was anguished with the cry of physical thirst! It was the anguish of His thirst that assures us that He will never turn down one who comes to Him crying, "Lord, save me!" If you have ever doubted that the Lord has heard your cry of surrender, meditate on His cries from the cross and be assured that He will always hear you.