STAND UP AND WITNESS

 

STAND UP AND WITNESS

Are you a witness for God

And Jesus in today's world?

Do you LIKE feeling the love

Of God and Jesus in your heart?

BETTER yet how do you feel

When you run across or

Run into someone

WHO is a particularly COMMITTED Christian?

Today we read about

The troubling LOVE of God

About Herod and about John the Baptist

ONE of the most particular and

Committed CHRISTIANS of all time

He was NOT AFRAID to stand up

And witness-and he was jailed-

Murdered-and beheaded for it

“Herod feared John-KNOWING him

To be a righteous and HOLY MAN

And kept him in custody

When he heard him speak

He was very much perplexed

Yet he LIKED to listen to him” Mark 6:20

STAND UP and witness

Regardless of the consequences

That's what John did

Would you do it?

Would I do it?

That is what it takes

To be a committed Christian

In today's world

STAND UP AND WITNESS

“There was a man

SENT from God

Whose name was John

He came as a WITNESS

To testify

Concerning the LIGHT

So that through him

All might believe

He himself was not the light

He came ONLY

As a witness to the light” John 1:6-8

John testified to the LIGHT OF JESUS

That is our job too

To TESTIFY to the light

That has already come

WHEN we encounter anyone

LIVING in the light

It can be both terrifying

And attractive too

It can be scary to meet someone

Who KNOWS the heart and mind of Jesus

I TRY to know the heart and mind

Of Jesus

I try to stand up and testify

To the love-and forgiveness-

And kindness of God

But I UNDERSTAND how sometimes

It can be OVERWHELMING to people

Like John was with Herod

Like Jesus was with Pilate

GOD'S POWER-God's love can overwhelm us

Yet we still NEED to stand up and testify

We need to stand up and witness

For God and Jesus-UNTIL-

The end of time

“An honest witness

Tells the truth

But a false witness

Tells lies” Proverbs 12:17

“For WHERE two or three

Are GATHERED in my name

There I will be” Matthew 18:20

We need to STAND UP and witness together

About God and Jesus

And there they will be

RIGHT in the Midst of us

ALL the way-until

THE END OF TIME

Robert P. Wallman

8-28-16

Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Elizabeth Duffy

6-01-02-2021