Today’s Thought “Truth, Even While Shoppers Buy” G. Ward

John 13

³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had handed all things over to Him, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, ⁴ got up from supper and laid His outer garments aside; and He took a towel and tied it around Himself.

 

The Jewish Passover remains the most significant holiday for Jews and was/is comparable to this season’s anticipation of Christmas. Great lengths are taken to ensure all the decorum of the days ahead is that to which will overwhelm all the events’ participants; so much so, that planning usurps the holiday’s meaning.

Our Exemplar Leader, Christ, demonstrated what it means to know the Almighty up to the time of His crucifixion - best servitude unto any who’d follow Him; a perseverance that maintains the Father’s business as precedent, particularly in view of mankind’s attraction to shiny things soon to tarnish.

Believers are compelled to imitate HIM who wouldn’t slow down to ingest the aromas so pungent with cinnamon and other delightful fragrances, but endeavored a year-round quest for many who needed merciful grace that’d keep providing…