Daily Discipleship - Day 310: To Him Who Loves Us
May 3, 2026
Daily Discipleship • Day 310 • Saturday, March 6, 2027
To Him Who Loves Us
Revelation 1:5–6
Pleasant Springs Church • ps-church.com
Brennan Manning — former Franciscan priest and author of The Ragamuffin Gospel, whose reflection on Christ's blood-bought love speaks with particular power to those who feel unworthy of the priestly identity Revelation declares.
λύσαντι
lusanti · Greek NT“freed / loosed / released”
luŏ means to loose, to untie, to set free—the image is of bonds being cut. The aorist tense marks a completed, decisive act. Christ has already freed us from our sins; the liberation is accomplished, not pending. Some manuscripts read 'washed' (lousanti) which is also textually significant.
Revelation begins not with apocalyptic terror but with a doxology of love. Before John describes visions of beasts and seals, he establishes who Jesus is: the one who loves us—present tense, ongoing—and who freed us—past tense, accomplished—and who made us a royal priesthood. This is the lens through which all the rest of Revelation is to be read.
Manning always returned to the present-tense love: 'to him who loves us.' Not loved us once and moved on, but loves us now, continuously, in this moment. Whatever difficulty today holds, you are moving through it held by present, active, unbroken love. Let that be the first word and the last word of your day.
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