It is by and unto that love we are summoned most of all—to look unto Jesus and to welcome Him into our hopeless days, having seen Him process what may well have been His … except. The exception is that Jesus handled the day in a way that saw beyond it: “For the joy that was set before Him, [He] endured the Cross.” He related to each moment and each person in a manner that overthrew their hope-emptying potential, showing us the way to do likewise in any such day we may face. The promise was to a band
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