He (the Lord Jesus Christ) takes the sorrows of human nature-weariness, hunger; but with a heart that never was weary when a service of love was to be performed.... It is most sweet and blessed to see it, and to see He had no will of His own in it. When they tell Him, " He whom thou lovest is sick," we should have thought He would have started off at once. No, He abode two days still where He was, He had no commandment from His Father. We see it was to show His Godhead. Still, as a servant, He had no word, and He did not stir. It seemed very hard. His home, if He had one on earth, was that house at Bethany. You never find Him going out of the place of a servant, and He never was anything but the perfection of love in it.