Lenten Love #31

“No one has greater love than to give up one’s life for one’s friends.”

John 15:13

I have heard or read this a thousand times over.  It just seems different to gaze upon it at the start of Holy Week.  To think that by the end of the week, we will be grieving Jesus’ death, well, because we have to.  We have to go through Good Friday to get to Resurrection Sunday.

So as we look upon Jesus’ teaching about self-sacrifice in light of what he is about to do, and before we even think about how we are to respond, maybe we should just sit with it for a little while.  He says, “This is what love is” and while it is one thing to just talk about it, he goes further and says, “Now let me show you.” And indeed, there has never been a demonstration more powerful than that.

Thanks be to God for the words, for the words that were shown and for the Word made flesh.

Peace,
B

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