Wednesday, July 31, 2013
I was reminded of this yesterday:
Christ has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours
no feet but yours
You are the eyes through which
Christ's compassion for the world is to look out,
yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good
and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.
Saint Theresa of Avila
Preach the gospel always
When necessary use words
Saint Francis of Assisi
There is a hole in the gospel I have been living. I read yesterday in the book, The Hole in Our Gospel, a very convicting thought. He said, " Each one of us might as well take our Bibles, a pair of scissors, and begin cutting out all the scripture we pay no attention to, all the biblical texts we just ignore"(Stearns, 2009, p. 24).
"The question for you and for me is this: will Christ find evidence of our genuine concern for his beloved poor when He looks at the fruit of our lives on that day?"(p. 60)
It is so easy to get caught up in our lives and just keep rolling on, but God beckons up to stop and see the world with his eyes, to hear the cries of his children, and have it penetrate our hearts- so much so that we cannot go on with our lives as before.
Christ has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours
no feet but yours
You are the eyes through which
Christ's compassion for the world is to look out,
yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good
and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.
Saint Theresa of Avila
Preach the gospel always
When necessary use words
Saint Francis of Assisi
There is a hole in the gospel I have been living. I read yesterday in the book, The Hole in Our Gospel, a very convicting thought. He said, " Each one of us might as well take our Bibles, a pair of scissors, and begin cutting out all the scripture we pay no attention to, all the biblical texts we just ignore"(Stearns, 2009, p. 24).
"The question for you and for me is this: will Christ find evidence of our genuine concern for his beloved poor when He looks at the fruit of our lives on that day?"(p. 60)
It is so easy to get caught up in our lives and just keep rolling on, but God beckons up to stop and see the world with his eyes, to hear the cries of his children, and have it penetrate our hearts- so much so that we cannot go on with our lives as before.
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