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“The faith”
includes thoughts of
love, sympathy, interest and care for others, especially for them of
the household of faith. How it gives us an insight into our Lord’s
sympathetic nature, to find Him thinking in the interest of others
at the very time when He Himself is overwhelmed in trouble! His own
agony did not hinder Him from thinking of His mother, and making
provision for her comfort… We note the choice of John: it was
doubtless because of, first of all, his loving, tender disposition;
secondly, his zeal for the Lord and the Truth; and thirdly, his
courage in pressing near to be with his dying Master in His closing
hours, at the risk of his own life. Let us note these
characteristics, as being those which the Lord approves, that noting
them we may cultivate them in ourselves, and thus be granted special
opportunities for service by this same
Master. |
