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 and 12-26-2022
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti
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