February 14

today's reading: Matthew 28:1-20

Love Story

There is no greater love than that a man would lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

It seems that the end of Jesus life on earth has several similarities to it's beginning.

The angel of the Lord comes to make the holy announcement........
            to confirm that prophecy has been fulfilled at this moment in history....
        The good news is given,telling where they will be able to find Jesus.......

There is hurrying away to share the news.........
       this time it is not shepherds, but the women who had followed Jesus
                running to tell the disciples all they had seen and heard...............

There is even the plotting of the shifty leadership .............
             to make sure that people were not allowed to know the truth...........
                    

When the disciples went to the mountain............
           they worshipped Him..........................


Just as in the beginning of Jesus life....so it was at the end..............
          He would be worshipped.
 
And so it is today................
         He will be worshipped, in love, by those who realize who He really is.

 

  What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul!

What wondrous love is this, O my soul!
What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul, for my soul,