Loving Us To The End

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. John 13:1

We in this age have some concern over 'to the end' as it would appear to us that the end must come very soon. The disciples also has some concern over this for the same reason, but that would come later for them. At this point, as Jesus our Lord kneels before them to wash their feet, they are still struggling to believe that He is really going to die right there in Jerusalem. One has to wonder at their blind spot, and then one has to wonder if we might not have a similar lack of sight in something our Lord said. Don't look to me; if this is so, then I have the same blind spot as you. Nothing is coming to mind by way of a revelation. 

However, there is one great thing we are given - His love to the end. That which we had in the beginning, we have until the very end. The love of the Lord is everlasting and steadfast. We do not have to get up worrying over whether God still loves us today. We know from His word that He does. We may feel a bit of despair from the weeks of forced home time, but the love of God has not stopped flowing down from His throne. God is here in us in the Spirit loving us to the end. 

And let us love one another, as He said,

Bucky