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
7-24-25-2021
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
7-24-25-2021
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