Matt 4:24-25
"The News about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them. Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan."
If this isn't a testament to the Love of Christ, I don't know what is. To see this, you have to visualize this. Think about a convention centered around one man. Now strip out an actual building for it to happen in, take away a stage, zero volunteers. At this point we can assume He had probably four disciples with Him, but I'm sure they were just as amazed of this as all the other people, so they weren't going to be much help. Now put hundreds, if not thousands of people coming to this one man to heal this, to fix that. Perhaps even some hypochondriacs.
Now to top all this off, take into consideration that He willed this to happen. He is God after all. He willed His Spirit to create a longing in them to come. Even if they came by response to word-of-mouth, they were still given the faith to seek Him out
He willed them to come, He gave them faith to follow through with that desire, He endured through what we would consider "needy, annoying, self-absorbed" people, and not at a single point do we see Matthew recording "And at that point, Jesus became fed up with the people and their selfish needs and left them in a huff." or "from time to time you could hear grumblings from Jesus about how needy these people were."
No, Jesus not only endured this, He more than likely absolutely loved it. This is after-all our Creator. He then, after taking care of all their needs, begins to teach them! His patience has barely been tapped in to! Granted, this was probably an excellent way to get that kind of crowd to hear Him, but the basis for these actions, tact aside, is still His love for them, in healing and in teaching.
So let us, therefore, learn from this lesson. Not of healing, but of love. How often do care for those of whom we do not know, and even when we do show that caring, grumble within it. We wear our love on the outside falsely, and still show our disdain on the inside. Let us all go to our Lord and seek a greater love that cares inside and out, that we might be more like Jesus in every way! Let us learn in the same way that Paul more than likely learned with saying "As for you brothers, do not grow weary in doing good" 2 Timothy 3:13.
