Jesus
appeared to the Eleven and said to them: “Go into the whole world and proclaim
the Gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved;
whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those
who believe: in my name they will drive out demons,they will speak new
languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any
deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they
will recover.” Then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into
heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. But they went forth and
preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word
through accompanying signs.
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Reflection:
Do you take time to share in whatever way possible
what you know about Jesus?
It’s
so easy to remain in our comfort zones and just live the lifestyle that we
want. We do everything for ourselves and we do nothing to propagate the teachings
of Jesus. Then when we are at the sunset
of our lives we will find out that nothing really matters except God.
As we
look back we would find out that we’ve been so selfish with our time, energy
and treasures. It’s always been me and for myself undertaking no undertaking
for God and His people. As followers of Jesus
this is not what He wants us to do.
God
wants us to spread the good news in our own little way. He wants us to proclaim
our faith not necessarily by words alone but through our actions as well. If we can proclaim our faith thru our actions
that would be much better since actions speaks volumes than words.
We
therefore have to discard the me and myself mentality and replace it with God,
my fellowmen and me. What does this mean? God and His people must be first in
our lives not us. Therefore if God and our fellowmen are first we would have
time to share the teachings of Jesus through our words and actions. - Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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