Follow Christ
To Jesus and not to Us
Paul and Barnabas , though they continually point to Jesus , are today worshipped by the people of Lystra as gods. We sometimes forget that we are people who should point to Jesus and not to us. I use to tell my people follow Jesus don’t follow people or person. We should be Christo- centric not Priesto-Centric.A theologian had a painting of the crucifixion in his study. It showed John the Baptist with a long bony finger pointing to Jesus. One day a visitor asked, "What is your job?" The theologian walked over to the painting and said, "I am that finger." Do our lives point people to Christ? Or do they turn them away from Him? Before you answer, remember what Gandhi said, "I would have become a Christian if ever I had met one." Today’s Psalm turns this around. “Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name give glory because of your mercy, because of your truth.” We are what we are and we do what we do because of the mercy of God.
Brothers and sisters let us be careful. Let us not allow anyone to try to fool us by sowing confusion and do not allow anything to lead us away form the love of Christ. The Christian who is serious about his or her faith knows that he or she should be committed to following Jesus’ teachings, to doing everything possible to maintain the love of Christ. Jesus is the only one who can save us, “nor is there anyone other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.”
When we are in the moth of May we recognize Our Mother Mary as our model in looking upon the Face of Christ, for she conceived Christ in her womb through the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. From the moment of His conception, before she could see Him, Mary began to devote her attention exclusively to Christ. Her response to the announcement of the Archangel Gabriel shows her total devotion in the vocation to which God had called her: Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word? When we reach to Mary, then Mary will lead us to Her Son Jesus. To Jesus through Mary.
Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. (John 14: 21-26)
Let everything that we do may lead others to Christ.
Paul and Barnabas , though they continually point to Jesus , are today worshipped by the people of Lystra as gods. We sometimes forget that we are people who should point to Jesus and not to us. I use to tell my people follow Jesus don’t follow people or person. We should be Christo- centric not Priesto-Centric.A theologian had a painting of the crucifixion in his study. It showed John the Baptist with a long bony finger pointing to Jesus. One day a visitor asked, "What is your job?" The theologian walked over to the painting and said, "I am that finger." Do our lives point people to Christ? Or do they turn them away from Him? Before you answer, remember what Gandhi said, "I would have become a Christian if ever I had met one." Today’s Psalm turns this around. “Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name give glory because of your mercy, because of your truth.” We are what we are and we do what we do because of the mercy of God.
Brothers and sisters let us be careful. Let us not allow anyone to try to fool us by sowing confusion and do not allow anything to lead us away form the love of Christ. The Christian who is serious about his or her faith knows that he or she should be committed to following Jesus’ teachings, to doing everything possible to maintain the love of Christ. Jesus is the only one who can save us, “nor is there anyone other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.”
When we are in the moth of May we recognize Our Mother Mary as our model in looking upon the Face of Christ, for she conceived Christ in her womb through the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. From the moment of His conception, before she could see Him, Mary began to devote her attention exclusively to Christ. Her response to the announcement of the Archangel Gabriel shows her total devotion in the vocation to which God had called her: Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word? When we reach to Mary, then Mary will lead us to Her Son Jesus. To Jesus through Mary.
Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him. (John 14: 21-26)
Let everything that we do may lead others to Christ.
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