Are You and Your Words the Same?

Is there a difference between whom you say you are and who you really are? I always wondered how Jesus was able to have such following. One time five thousand followed him on the mount. And they just did not follow Jesus, they followed him for days. It meant they slept outside, in the grass or the ground. Now that is charisma for you! There are a lot of things that attracted people to Jesus. I do not think this blog is long enough to list all the reasons. Plus, I do not really know all of them. But one thing I believed attracted the people to Jesus was He and His words were one. What He preached was what who He was. Well, He is of course IS the Word of God made flesh. You cannot find any division from what Jesus preached and how he acted. He preached loved and He loved. Jesus told the people to feed the hungry, and He fed thousands. He said forgive your enemies, and He did. Before he died He said, “Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.” The toughest thing Jesus preached was to love your enemies. And Jesus did. St. Paul said to the Romans, “But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us…. Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son…” If you consider yourself a Christian, do people see it? Or are you just a Christian by name? Do you talk the talk and walk the walk? When Jesus said He was the Son of God, He was day in day out. He was not ashamed to say that He was the Son of God, even if it meant that He was going to be persecuted. He stood for who He was. We who call ourselves Christians, do we do the same? Are we ready to stand up for who we are? Or are only Christians when we feel like it or when it is comfortable? Being precedes doing. It really saddens me when someone calls themselves Christians and has no relationship with Christ. And what drives me nuts is when someone who live an immoral life and boastfully calls himself a Christian. Have you asked why people don’t take you seriously or don’t listen to you? Maybe because they can sense that you are not whom you “say” you are. ”Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.” – Pope John Paul II

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