JESUS' TEACHING FOR ALL OF TIME

 

JESUS' TEACHING FOR ALL OF TIME

The apostle John=

Was the LAST SURVIVING

Of all of the APOSTLES=

It is believed

That he LIVED

To be 100 years old=

While most of the other apostles

IF not all=died as MARTYRS=

Except Judas

“You BELONG to God-children.......”                                                                        1 John 4:4

As John ADVANCED in years=

Many people=would ask him

To SHARE his insights

And memories of Jesus

Like what was it LIKE

To walk with Jesus=for three years?

What is it about Jesus' miracles-

The meaning of the parables=

And other truths=that really stuck with him?

John would always RESPOND

With five words=

“Little children=LOVE ONE ANOTHER”

And this my friends=this is

The basic concept of Jesus

This my friends=is THE TEACHING

FOR ALL OF TIME

For if we really did this=could we

EVER do another thing

To hurt another human being?

And the bible is LACED

With quotes about=LOVING ONE ANOTHER=

Including John

He learned from his

MASTER teacher very well=

What could we be?

What would we be?

As human beings=IF we learned

To BE as much like Jesus=as John?

“My command is this=

LOVE EACH OTHER as I

Have loved you

Greater love=has no man than this=

To lay down one's life=

For one's friends”                                                                                                  John 15:12-13

“........and so that whatever you ask

In my name

The Father will give you

This is my command=

LOVE EACH OTHER”                                                                                             John 15:16-17

This is=JESUS' TEACHING

FOR ALL OF TIME=

If you never learned

Another thing from Jesus

But you have learned this-

You have learned

The ESSENCE OF HUMANITY=

If you but put it into PRACTICE

At all times

“He said to them=

'It is not for you

To know

The TIMES or dates

The Father has set

By his own authority.......'”                                                                                       Acts 1:7

Let us CLOSE OUR EYES

For a minute=and picture John=

With his head on Jesus' shoulder

At the LAST SUPPER

Let us picture John

Who was at Calvary=

Who witnessed the empty tomb=

And took Jesus' Mother-Mary

For his own

And let us picture John=

WHEN he was 100 years old

Telling us to go and=”LOVE ONE ANOTHER”

And then let us

PRACTICE doing it

THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES

For it is

JESUS' TEACHING FOR ALL OF TIME

And it is ours to remember=and to DO

In Jesus' name=and in the MEMORY of our LOVING APOSTLE JOHN

Robert P. Wallman

1-03-21 and 1-04-05-2023

Ps        INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. James McKarns