Last night was our first Lenten devotional group gathering. It went well. There were six besides Jane and me. The Scripture reading was John 13:1-5. Someone pointed out the end of verse 1: "Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love."
What was the full extent of Jesus' love? To do the servants job of washing feet. You'd have thought it might have been healing all those people of their ailments; or feeding the hungry; or restoring the shamed and guilty; or raising people from the dead, or some such miracle. But, no... doing a simple, menial task of service to others. I thought that was a great insight.
What's the most loving thing you can do today? Think about it.
Rock on, folks. Peace to you.
(I wasn't listening to any music while writing this, but in my head was playing Rich Mullins' song "Peace" off his "Litergy, Legacy, and a Ragamuffin Band" album. It is one of my all-time favorite songs. A little side-note story about it: I once gave the words of this song to one of my seminary profs, because he was one of the pastors of the church we were attending and they had just decided to close the church. He seemed especially distraught about it, and while listening to this song, it just seemed like sharing these words was the right thing to do. But after giving it to him, he never said anything, and I felt stupid. I still like the song though. And the prof.)
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That has always been one of my favorite songs, too. It has a calm assurance about it that is, well, reassuring.
I also thought it was a great insight last night into Jesus' love and am looking forward to the next several weeks.
The most loving thing?
...I dunno, I guess I could serve punch.
Hey, I think we're cross-referencing blogs here.
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