[Songs in the Night - December 1]
When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! John 19:26, 27
OUR Lord, so far from thinking of himself and his
own anguish was thinking of others.
As during his
ministry he had gone about doing good, so in his dying
hour here he thought of the good, the welfare of
others, and in the above words committed his mother
to the care of the loving disciple.
Beautiful is the lesson!
How it shows us the largeness of our Lord's
heart and sympathy, and how it teaches us not to be
entirely engrossed with our own trials and difficulties,
large and small, but rather to be burden-bearers of
others, allowing our sympathies, our thoughts and our
plans to be active for the blessing of all those who in
any measure are under our care in matters temporal
or spiritual. Z'08-152 R4173:1 (Hymn 312A)