I love you till the end
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John (77) Love to the end (John 13:1-11)
<Love to the end>
The day before His crucifixion, Jesus performed a ceremony to wash the feet of His disciples. Verse 1 of the text mentions this scene: “Before the Passover, Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave the world and return to the Father, and he loved his own who were in the world, but he loved them to the end.”
How touching are the words, “He loved you to the end”? Love is true love when you love it to the end. The first definition of love is ‘to be patient’. Life passes, but art remains. But the art is gone, but the love remains. Influence is as great as unchanging love. There is a saying that beginning is half. Just like that, the beginning is important, but so is the end. If the beginning is wrong, a good work cannot come out, and even if the beginning and process are good, if the end is bad, it is useless.
Jewish fable. One day, God gathered angels and told them the will of human creation. Then the ‘Angel of Righteousness’ spoke. "God! Don't create humans. They will do all kinds of injustice.” The ‘angel of holiness’ answered those words. "That's right. If you create humans, they will pollute the world.” Then the ‘angel of light’ said the same thing. “I think so too. They will darken the world.”
When such criticism and negative words abounded, the angel of mercy spoke. "God! It would be nice if you could create a human being. Even if the world becomes unjust, dirty, and dark because of humans, if you tell them God’s love that does not give up on humans, they will be more led into God’s arms.” In the end, it is said that God created man after hearing the words of the angel of mercy. There are many things to disappoint when dealing with people, but God does not disappoint or give up on that person and loves him to the end. Learn and put into practice that love that never gives up.
<Have humble faith>
Jesus Himself washed the feet of His disciples with His love to the end (verse 5). The scene where the Most High God washes the feet of the Most Low challenges the importance of humility. God was great in the most great things, and he was great in the smallest things. Washing one's feet is shameful from a human point of view, but where unbelief finds shame, faith finds glory; where pride finds shame, humility is honored.
One day, the disciples of St. Francis saw the humility of their master and asked: “Sir, how can I be humble like you?” Francis answered. “Look at God with the truth just once. Then you will never be proud.” Just look at the Lord with sincerity, just once, and examine yourself. What could possibly make you proud? If you look at Jesus sincerely and follow Him, you will become more humble.
Do not doubt God's love even if you have difficulties. How can you doubt God's love if you understand even a little bit of your own shortcomings? Even the saints, when they get out a little bit, are still arrogant, arrogant, sly, deceitful, capricious, selfish, arrogant, and unforgiving. After all, strictly speaking, almost all of the saints are Nairong believers. Then, no matter what kind of difficulties you face, you should say, “You deserve it.”
Real saints thought of themselves as 'naylon believers'. Not a single saint in Christian history thought of himself as “saint-like!” Because they all considered themselves believers, they knew that they could not live without God's grace. With such humble faith, they did not doubt God's love in any difficulties and believed that God's good plan was always there for them. could go to Will this time not follow in the footsteps of the saint's path ahead of us by looking at the Lord and looking at ourselves?