2. Love in Its Untiring Patience

As we read chap. 13., another quality of "love divine all praise excelling" is discovered to us, as, with His outer garment laid aside, Jesus girds Himself to minister to the necessities of His people.
“Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end." Nothing tests the character of love like patient endurance with its object. Surely in Christ "charity suffereth long." Every day, every hour, as the redeemed of the Lord travel onward to their rest, their wilfulness or their waywardness tests this love.
Let us take a retrospect of our walk. Is there not much in our ways that would have weaned another's affections from us? Jesus is "the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever." "Yesterday" He proved His love by dying for us; "to-day" He assures us of the reality of that love, whilst living for us; and "forever" we shall enjoy His blessed presence, for "He loves to the end.”
Did you ever quietly ponder over the undistracted service of that precious One in the glory? "If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." He cannot allow a stain to soil the pure garment for a moment. Is the saint in weakness, "He is touched with the feeling of our infirmities." His love enters into all the details of our sorrows, and if He feels them as the man Christ Jesus He knows how to succor us as the Son of God.