ACTING OUT OF LOVE

 

ACTING OUT OF LOVE

Today we HONOR Saint Stephen=

The first Christian martyr=

He was a TRUE MODEL

Of Jesus=and he

ACTED OUT OF LOVE

We too can GIVE

Our lives

To the cause=we too

CAN act out of love

And we don't have to do it

By dying for the cause=

We can do it

BY LIVING for the cause=

And being living martyrs=

By ACTING OUT OF LOVE

“As they were stoning Stephen=

He called out='Lord Jesus-

Receive my spirit'” Acts 7:59

Jesus and Stephen both died

BY FORGIVING

Those who were killing them

We can go THROUGH our lives

By forgiving those

Who have hurt us

I am NOT saying

To have a martyr complex=

But we can

FORGIVE those who

Have hurt us=by continuing

To LIVE our very BEST LIVES

TRUE CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM

Is an act of love=

Both in dying

And in living

FORGIVE and continue to

Live for the cause=

Acting OUT OF LOVE=

Living out of love

“My people

Have committed two sins=

They have forsaken me-

The spring of LIVING WATER

And have dug their

Own cisterns=That cannot hold water” Jeremiah 2:13

“But about the resurrection-

Of the dead=have you not read

What God has said to you

'I am=the God of Abraham=

the God of Isaac=and the God of Jacob?

He is not

The God of the dead

But of the LIVING'” Matthew 21:31-32

We can speak up

For God=where we are

In this world

We can be SPOKES PEOPLE

For God=in this world

We can live

By ACTING OUT OF LOVE

By PROMOTING LOVE

In this world

Just like Jesus and SAINT STEPHEN=

With their entire lives=

IN LIFE and in death

ACTING OUT OF LOVE!

Praising God with our lives

“He put a new song

In my mouth=

A HYMN OF PRAISE

To our God

Many will see

And fear the Lord

And put their trust in him” Psalm 40:3

Today=SEARCH YOUR HEART

For love for God=and

Sing a NEW SONG

And ACT WITH LOVE

For our LORD

Just like Jesus and SAINT STEPHEN

In the names of Jesus=and of our EVER LIVING LOVING FATHER

Robert P. Wallman

12-25-20

Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti