God's Love for You - Sunday 25th October 2026
Holy Family's Humility & Meekness (3b)
How touching it was to see, during the evening meal that night in the Upper Room, when Jesus as a Rabbi, took off his outer clothing, wrapped a towel around his waist and began to wash his disciples’ feet, in order to show us what humility and servanthood is. But Jesus’ humility and meekness reached its summit during His Passion. He foresaw His Sufferings in the Garden of Gethsemani, yet with His immense anguish of soul He humbly submit to His Father’s Will. When Judas kissed Jesus as a signal for the soldiers to seize his Master, He knew why he done so, but he did not punch him in the face, He did not say ‘How dare you!’, He simply said: “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?” (Lk 22:48) And to the high priest’s servant whom Peter cut off his ear, He healed him. To the men in the high priest’s house who mocked and beat Him, to the soldiers who derided His Kingship by putting thorns on His Head, reed on His Hands and purple cloak on His Shoulder, He remained silent, He bear with all these patiently and meekly. “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent…” (Acts 8:32) He humbly accepted the false accusations by His own people, He accepted the unfair sentence that was given by Pilate, He did not defend Himself with any words, but embraced this shameful cross wholeheartedly. On the way of the Cross, He did not bitterly ask His Mother to take revenge for Him, instead He gently consoled the women of Jerusalem who wept for Him. At the end, our Saviour was not raise by his people to the throne of a king with praises and glory, but to a big wooden cross on Mount Calvary between two thieves with mocking and shame. Although He is the King of kings, but for our sake, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death (Phil 2:8), and died as a criminal. Jesus, my Lord, what more could You have done and have not done for us?
