You and
I are called to His supper. How grateful
and privileged we are to be at the Lord’s table, knowing full well that we are
not worthy to be there.
Jesus
invites us anyway to heal us and show us God’s love! What are we to do?
We are to make Jesus Christ the primary focus of our live. We are to make the Light in the world visible by our lives. We are to become holy! We are to become saints! We are to shape our lives with the Holy Spirit, who dwells in us!
Let me
share this story, “The night the television set is switched off” by Elissa Ely. “In the downtown shelter, the large
television set is always on.
Shutting
it off is like tampering with another country’s flag. Lesser acts have led to war.
But one
humid night, a staff member turned the television off. Everyone was stunned. Two women stood at the front of the room ….
Each unstrapped a case, lifted out a stringed instrument and started to tune
it.
They … played
a Mozart duet, some Telemann, a Bulgarian folk tune. They didn’t know the people they were playing
for at the shelter. News of
the concerts spread and the audiences grew.
The
musicians were professionals from the Boston Symphony. One Wednesday a month the television set at
the shelter is turned off and the concert begins…. For a couple of hours – the forgotten, the
lost, the desperate, the addicted, and those who struggle to help them – are
all the same.” (Connections, January 16, 2011)
John the Baptist challenges us to behold the Lamb of God in our
midst, to see and hear the compassion of God in our lives, to uncover God’s
grace in our world.
May God Be Praised!
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