Doubting God's love, please help!

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I was praying the Rosary and when I was meditating on the mysteries I started worrying that since Jesus asked God to “remove this cup” from Him, He might not have loved us a lot, and went through with the crucifixion only because the Father willed it. And then I started thinking that maybe Jesus did the whole thing because He loved the Father.

I know that Jesus loves us, but I doubed for a few moments and it made me feel really bad.

Any help?

Thanks! 🙂
 
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Hermione:
I was praying the Rosary and when I was meditating on the mysteries I started worrying that since Jesus asked God to “remove this cup” from Him, He might not have loved us a lot, and went through with the crucifixion only because the Father willed it. And then I started thinking that maybe Jesus did the whole thing because He loved the Father.

I know that Jesus loves us, but I doubed for a few moments and it made me feel really bad.

Any help?

Thanks! 🙂
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You can love someone, yet still wince at the task that love leads to. The difficulty is that you’re getting into matters of Jesus’ humanity and his divinity. I don’t know how to summarize this in one post, so, if you don’t mind, I’d like to suggest the book “The Consciousness of Christ” by Fr. William G. Most:

catholicculture.org/docs/most/getwork.cfm?worknum=215

I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you’d rather read it on a computer screen, or simply buy the book or search your local library.
 
As a self follow-up, this might be another (shorter) piece to look at:

newadvent.org/cathen/07706b.htm

Here is a pertinent section:

(d) LIKES AND DISLIKES The Hypostatic Union did not deprive the Human Soul of Christ of its human likes and dislikes. The affections of a man, the emotions of a man were His in so far as they were becoming to the grace of union, in so far as they were not out of order. St. Augustine well argues: “Human affections were not out of place in Him in Whom there was really and truly a human body and a human soul” (De Civ. Dei, XIV, ix, 3). We find that he was subject to anger against the blindness of heart of sinners (Mark, iii, 5); to fear (Mark, xiv, 33); to sadness (Matt., xxvi, 37): to the sensible affections of hope, of desire, and of joy. These likes and dislikes were under the complete will-control of Christ. The fomes peccati, the kindling-wood of sin–that is, those likes and dislikes that are not under full and absolute control of right reason and strong will-power–could not, as a matter of course, have been in Christ. He could not have been tempted by such likes and dislikes to sin. To have taken upon Himself this penalty of sin would not have been in keeping with the absolute and substantial holiness which is implied by the grace of union in the Logos.
 
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Hermione:
I was praying the Rosary and when I was meditating on the mysteries I started worrying that since Jesus asked God to “remove this cup” from Him, He might not have loved us a lot, and went through with the crucifixion only because the Father willed it. And then I started thinking that maybe Jesus did the whole thing because He loved the Father.

I know that Jesus loves us, but I doubed for a few moments and it made me feel really bad.

Any help?

Thanks! 🙂
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Hermione,
There is no reason to stay feeling bad. IT is normal that you would feel bad for doubting His love for you.
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying “Eli, Eli, Lama sabachthani”? that is" My God My God Why have you forsaken Me"?
See even Jesus thought He had been forsaken in a desperate hour. He has covered your worries and now by His example on the cross you can tell of His doubts and because of His doubts and the expression of them in Holy Scripture you can know of His great love for you, that He too felt this way. He , Himself doubted His father. That is how much He loves you.
walk in love
walk in faith, believing in His constant love
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It was a sacrifice. Or rather the Sacrifice. Sacrifice doesn’t come easy. The suffering of Christ had (has) a very human dimension, not only a divine one. He was not only a fully divine God who went on the cross but also a fully human human who went on the cross. If you were to die for someone wouldn’t you rather you didn’t have to? Even if you ultimately would? There was no Sin in Him, but He had the same human vulnerability to suffering. But it has already been explained better than I ever could in the posts above.
 
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