Love One Another

Welcome to Thursday. Let’s pray together.

Jesus, today we get to celebrate the hope of Your servant example and heart. My prayer is that my friends will fully embrace every miracle that you have for them today. Jesus, teach us how to love as you do! Amen.

After resting for the night, Jesus sent Peter and John ahead to make preparations for the Passover Feast. That evening, Jesus did a miracle of service and washed the feet of His disciples. In performing this humble act of service, Jesus demonstrated by example how believers should love one another.

Who is someone on your heart right now that needs you to wash their feet? Washing the feet of someone today could be bringing a meal, writing a note of encouragement or doing an act of kindness that will change their day…and yours! Whoever God is bringing to mind, follow the example of Jesus and serve them today!

Jesus shared the feast of Passover with his disciples, saying: "I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins. For I tell you now that I won't eat this meal again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God." (Luke 22:15-16, NIV)

As the perfect Lamb of God, Jesus was about to fulfill the meaning of Passover by giving His body to be broken, and His blood to be shed in sacrifice, freeing us from sin and death. After this meal, Jesus shared Communion with His closest friends and instructed them, “Do this in remembrance of Me.”

Take this moment and remember Jesus. Remember His love and His life. Remember His passion and His prayer. Remember His salvation and His sustenance. Use this time to remember ALL that God has done for you in your life and be thankful. We have so much hope when we remember all that Jesus did and who He was!

Later on that night, Jesus and the disciples left and went to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed in agony to His Father. Jesus was in agony as He contemplated His betrayal by Judas, the denial of Peter, and His death because of all of us. Luke's Gospel says that "His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground" (Luke 22:44, NIV).

While I know it is hard, we can all find purpose and hope in pain. When we truly know that “All things work together for good, for those who love Him and are called according to His promise”, we can endure pain with hope because the first requisite for a miracle is an impossible situation.

Jesus took on the pain of the cross so that you and I could experience the miracle of salvation and a hopeful future!

This story may be hard, but hold on to the hope and promise of Jesus. We are almost to the Resurrection!

You are a miracle!

Your friend,

Grant Fishbook