Editorial January 2, 1984 Issue

The love that perseveres

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

Christ Jesus' unceasing love gives us an example of God's eternal care for His beloved children. Jesus' apostle, John, tells us, "Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end."^{John 13:1.}

Right up until the moment of his ascension, Jesus' steadfast holy love for his disciples remained constant. Because Jesus' love emanated from God, divine Love, it transcended the human weaknesses his disciples sometimes expressed. Jesus' love, however, wasn't just a matter of his being humanly loving to others. It was a spiritual affection fulfilling an inescapable demand upon him, a requirement of God, divine Love. To demonstrate the full consciousness of immortal Life, he must demonstrate the continuing nature of infinite Love, for divine Love and divine Life are one. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes, "... God is Love, and without Love, God, immortality cannot appear."^{Science and Health, p. 312.}

The demonstration of divine Love is both prerequisite for and coexistent with the full appearing of man's immortality. How important, then, that we maintain in consciousness the truth that the actual identity of both ourselves and others is spiritual man—the complete manifestation of God, eternal Love. Especially do we need this spiritual understanding of Love's ever-presence and man's embodiment of that Love when we're faced with trying situations where circumstances would tempt us to give up.

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