WHAT IS YOUR STORY OF FAITH?

WHAT IS YOUR STORY OF FAITH?


Today we READ about
Saint PAUL and how he is
CALLED to preach
TO the GENTILES


About the riches of CHRIST
And how by LOOKING to Jesus
We can NURTURE
Our sometimes meager FAITH


“When you read this
You can UNDERSTAND
My insight
INTO the mystery of Christ.........” Ephesians 3:4


What is your
STORY OF FAITH?
How has God? How has our Lord
STEPPED FORWARD
For you
WHEN you were
In your DEEPEST NEED?


We all have a STORY
To tell about Jesus=about God


About how we were GIVEN
A WAY OUT=when it looked
Like we had NO HOPE


I know on my own=
IN MY OWN STORY
God let me continue to LIVE
When I had a 108 degree
FEVER=due to peritonitis and gangrene


LIFE=in whatever form=IS
GOD'S GREATEST GIFT
That is MY STORY OF FAITH


What is YOUR STORY
OF FAITH?


They said
“Listen to me=Judah
And people of Jerusalem!


Have FAITH
In the Lord YOUR GOD
And you will be upheld


Have FAITH in his prophets
And you will be successful” Chronicles 20:20


“Jesus replied=
'Truly I tell you
If you have FAITH
And do NOT doubt


Not only can you do
What was done
To the fig tree


But also
You can SAY to this mountain
'Go throw yourself into the sea'
And it will be done


If you believe
You will RECEIVE
Whatever you ask for in PRAYER'” Matthew 21:21-22


Paul's excitement
About the MYSTERY OF CHRIST=
The story of Jesus
Makes me FEEL GOOD


He is MESMERIZED
WITH the mystery of Christ


Paul was CHOSEN by God
To be an AMBASSADOR
For Jesus


WE too=in today's world
Are chosen to be spokesmen
To be ambassadors
For GOD AND CHRIST


We are CHOSEN by God
Chosen by Jesus
To BE his 21^st century apostles


“For many are invited
But few are CHOSEN” Matthew 22:14


John the BAPTIST said=
“The man on whom you see
The SPIRIT come down
And remain


Is the one who
Will baptize
With the HOLY SPIRIT


I have seen and I TESTIFY
That this is GOD'S CHOSEN ONE” John 1:33-34


Like Paul=like John the Baptist
LET us DELVE into
The MYSTERY of Christ


And ALONG with other
21^st century apostles


Let us tell
OUR STORIES OF FAITH


In the names of JESUS and HIS most HEAVENLY FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
10-24-18




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sister Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B.