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July 17, 1994
Would Christ Act As I Am Acting
Messenger: I see You Jesus. Through the passion, scourged, I see You hanging on the cross, I see You taken down from the cross. I see Your flesh, You gave Your all for us.
Nothing covering Your skin and they beat Your very own flesh. They whipped You -- nothing was between You and the whipping.
You want my all, no coverings to cover me, to give myself totally and unreservedly to You.
This is Your act of love for us,
This should be my act of love for You.Looking at Your bare body during the passion reminds me how much You dearly love us. There is nothing You hold back, there is nothing You use to separate Yourself from us.
You give us Yourself in the Eucharist. You hold nothing back. You give us You.
Oh, how I love You my precious Savior.
This is how close He is to us. He is not afraid to get close, He gives Himself. What an act of love. What do I cover myself with to keep me from loving as He asks me to?
We are called to model ourselves after Christ. I think of Christ and how He was. Total peace, always. Peace to His death on the cross. He did not talk about anyone. He always was loving and giving of Himself in service.
If I am to try to act like Christ, I must meditate on how He was.
Being a Christian is to be Christ-like.
Would Christ act as I am acting? I preach the gospel in my very being. I preach His word by how I am. I must be rooted in Him and His love so that I act as He wants me to act. I still will fall short. But I must try to be likened to Christ in all things.
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