Today’s Thought “Frivolous?” G. Ward John 13 33 Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can’t come where I am going. 34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Jesus was at the end, soon to face an agonizing crucifixion and He prepares those for the certainty of days ahead; that approaching this monumental task in making other disciples wasn’t going to be easy. This magnificent Savior’s portrayal of love would absolutely put aside what would have encompassed every other man with great collapse under this pressure in knowing these next moments as tortuous for Himself, but un-hesitatingly surrendered for our benefit (cf. John 15:20-21). We cannot continue awakening to what God needs to do for us. Moreover, thanking Him for another day that resembles most days with plea of safety for me and mine and thanksgiving as any view calamity and destruction found plaguing others with temporal compassion that echoes “what a shame” as it dishonors the Redeemer’s faithfulness to mankind, clearly misunderstands HIS sacrifice (*Ro.12:1-2). Happy Easter?