There were twelve in Gethsemane on that final night; it was late and very dark. Eleven were dozing with exhaustion; one was anxious and deeply sad. After a while the darkness was pierced by the flames of burning torches, and the silence shattered by movement and voices. Betrayed by a treacherous kiss, the Messiah of Israel would be arrested stealthily, secretly, illegally, and His hands bound. Startled into wakefulness, stunned by the traitor’s kiss, horrified and confused, the disciples cried, “’Lord, should we fight? We brought the swords!’ And one of them struck at the high priest’s slave, slashing off his right ear. But [Yahshua] said, ‘No more of this.’ And he touched the man’s ear and healed him [Luke 22:49-51, New Living Translation]. The apostle John tells us that after this caring act “the soldiers, their commanding officer, and the Temple guards arrested [Yahshua] and tied him up” [John 18:12]. I wonder if anyone thought of the irony of binding those caring hands which had just performed a miracle!
Have you ever wondered what will be the last thing you ever do? If you could choose, what would it be? Impossible to decide? Did Yahshua choose that His last act would be so loving, so compassionate? Amy Carmichael wrote that Yahshua “spent much time in healing sick people, and in the natural course of events it happened that the last thing He did with His kind hands was to heal a bad cut!” Yahshua was, and is, the King of Love, so what flowed out of Him in the garden that night was the kindness of love.
As each day unfolds, there may be demands on our time, claims on our resources, stress for our emotions and, certainly, a multitude of ordinary things requiring attention. “So the best thing,” concludes Amy Carmichael, “is just to go on simply, doing each thing as it comes as well as we can…and then the last thing [we] do…will be only the continuation of all that went before.”
Let’s commit to doing everything that comes our way with the consideration and patient understanding of the King of Love, Whose beautiful example shines in our hearts.
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