There is never an end, as there is never a beginning, to the good which God does: just as the property of light is to illuminate, so the property of God is to do good. Thus in the Law, which is concerned with the structure of temporal things subject to generation and decay, the sabbath is honoured by rest from work, whereas in the Gospel, which initiates us into the realm of spiritual realities, lustre is shed on the sabbath by good actions. (Saint Maximos the Confessor, Philokalia)

I do not perceive that Jesus distinguished quite so clearly between the temporal and spiritual realms. He did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.

But in such fulfilling the law, as we may have understood it, can be transformed. For the spiritual law is not concerned with generation and decay, but with abundance.

God is the ultimate reality. In God there is never an end, as there is never a beginning. In this ultimate reality there is the continual action of creative, self-giving love.