Monday, December 26, 2022

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 and 12-26-2022



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



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