The men of Capernaum went out after our Lord in their
boats because they had eaten of the multiplied loaves and hoped to do so
again. Zebedee's children had forsaken all and followed our Lord,
because they counted to sit the one on His right hand and the other on
His left hand in His soon-coming kingdom. The pain and the shame all
that cost our Lord, we can only remotely imagine. But as for Himself,
our Lord never once had to blush in secret at His own motives. He never
once had to hang down His head at the discovery of His own selfish aims
and by-ends. Happy man! The thought of what He should eat or what He
should drink or wherewithal He should be clothed never troubled His head.
The thought of success, as His poor-spirited disciples counted success,
the thought of honour and power and praise, never once rose in His heart.
All these things, and all things like them, had no attraction for Him;
they awoke nothing but indifference and contempt in him. But to please
His Father and to hear from time to time His Father's voice saying that
He was well pleased with His beloved Son,--that was better than life to
our Lord.
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