Friday, February 09, 2007
Doing His Words
Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also wish to go away?"
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal lifeand we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." John 6:67-69 RSV
One of the things that mark the committed Christian is this reality: We believe Jesus is the Christ the Son of the Living God, the Second Person of the Trinity, Emmanuel God-With-US, and believing that, how can we go away? We know his words are the words of eternal life.
Every one who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep, and laid the foundation upon rock; and when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it had been well built. Luke 6: 47,48 RSV
Learning do to his words is the work we are here to learn. And his teaching is summed up quickly like this: "Love God with everything you have and are, and love your neighbor as yourself, because in acting with love to those in need, you are acting in love to Me."
Today, if each of us, all over the world, would do one deed of kindness, for God, through His power, because He asked it, the world would be transformed in ways we cannot imagine. But since I cannot get everybody to behave that way, I will make this promise: To remember how much God loves, and to try to show that love to someone who I don't want to, each and every day, at least once.
Labels: Following Jesus
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