God's Calling us to....

BE ONE WHO LOVES ---

According to Paul, the person who is most Christ-like is not the one who spends the most time in prayer, or who has the best mastery of chapter and verse in the Bible, or who has the most Ph.D's ,or who has the most important positition of responsibility. No, the one who is most Christ-like is the one who loves the most. That's not my opinion; that's the Word that will just us in Matthew 25: "Come, you blessed of My Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world" (v.34).

Wow! I'm beloved, l'm blessed, pleasing in the eyes of my Heavenly Father to the extent that I have become a beneficiary of the kingdom of heaven. Why? Jesus says, "I was hungry, and you gave me food; thirsty, and you gave me drink; naked, and you clothed me; sick, and you comforted me; in prison, and you came to visit me" (vs.35,36).

On that day a lot of us are going to protest and say, "Just a moment, Sir. I never saw You in my entire life. I lived out most of my days surrounded by ordinary, dull, uninspired, and uninspiring people. How can You say I was ever kind or unkind to You when I never met You? Then will come the revelation of revelations, the end of the greatest story ever told. Jesus will look into your eyes and mine, and say, "What you did to them, you did to Me. As often as you did it for the least of My brothers and sisters, you did it for Me" (vs. 40).
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BRENNAN MANNING

God's CAlling...
FOR ME--

An instrument finely tuned is ready to play the world's greatest music. The Christian finely tuned is ready to act on the Lord's greatesst Commandments; to love God and to love others. Jesus says that when we show love to others, we're loving Him. This is God's Calling, to take our energies and direct them towards others in love.

Calling Out
--TO GOD --

'May I learn to love as Christ loves, learn to care as He does, and put into practice what I have learned.' AMEN ~

BRENNAN MANNING/ God's Calling --Searching For Purpose in Life