goodwinh
March-21st-2008, 10:35 AM
Of late I have been impressed with the breadth and depth of love expressed by Jesus .... He understood his mission. Prophets knew what he would experience. He knew what he would experience. His disciples were told what he would experience. He must have longed for them to understand the message and motive behind his mission - to truly "get it".
He healed multitudes but they didn't understand. He fed the multitudes but they didn't understand. He healed sin, raised the dead, brought Lazurus out of four days in the Grave, and they still didn't understand.
What would it take for the disciples to "get it"? What would it take for the world to "get it" (someday)?
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13.... and his enemies....
Peter cut off the ear and Jesus rebuked the action?
"Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" John 18:11
Peter still didn't get it.
What kind of love is this? .."so far above all mortal strife..." ... "or cruel fear ...or earthborn taint"... Do I truly "Get it"?
Do "We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift [our] faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter." S&H 497:20 We
As prohphet, Jesus knew and stated his mission before it happened.
"I have overcome the world." ... the world's universal belief in matter; in a death belief.
Did Peter finally "get it" at the morning meal? ... at the ascension? ... Did it finally soak in at the pentacost?
"Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." John 21:17 Lord
Even then, Jesus was challenging Peter three times to love more, to "Feed my sheep."
"What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him." Luke 8:25. ....He overcometh the World, the grave, and a limited sense of life!
Moved and motivated totally ..... totally! ..... by the all power of divine Love!
"Fill us today with all thou art.... be thou our saint, our stay alway."
He healed multitudes but they didn't understand. He fed the multitudes but they didn't understand. He healed sin, raised the dead, brought Lazurus out of four days in the Grave, and they still didn't understand.
What would it take for the disciples to "get it"? What would it take for the world to "get it" (someday)?
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13.... and his enemies....
Peter cut off the ear and Jesus rebuked the action?
"Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" John 18:11
Peter still didn't get it.
What kind of love is this? .."so far above all mortal strife..." ... "or cruel fear ...or earthborn taint"... Do I truly "Get it"?
Do "We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift [our] faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter." S&H 497:20 We
As prohphet, Jesus knew and stated his mission before it happened.
"I have overcome the world." ... the world's universal belief in matter; in a death belief.
Did Peter finally "get it" at the morning meal? ... at the ascension? ... Did it finally soak in at the pentacost?
"Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep." John 21:17 Lord
Even then, Jesus was challenging Peter three times to love more, to "Feed my sheep."
"What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him." Luke 8:25. ....He overcometh the World, the grave, and a limited sense of life!
Moved and motivated totally ..... totally! ..... by the all power of divine Love!
"Fill us today with all thou art.... be thou our saint, our stay alway."