Offer your bodies as living sacrifices - (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

“If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?”

C.S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain

“If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.”

C.S. Lewis in The Weight of Glory

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”

C.S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain

Your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses

You know those people? 

The ones who love their neighbor but not in their neighborhood.

Of course I love the less fortunate but not in my neighborhood.

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 139:23-24

The English Standard Version

Of course we must feed the hungry and clothe the naked but not in my neighborhood.

The ones who offer their sacrifices and tithe at church with great delight.

And tell everyone about how church must help people in far a way countries, where they don't even know Christ yet.

Always, love is a choice. You come up against scores of opportunities every day to love or not to love. You encounter hundreds of small chances to please your friends, delight your Lord, and encourage your family. That's why love and obedience are intimately linked- you can't have one without the other.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Do you know those other people?

The ones that talk about schmootzers.

The people who claim it's churches place to take care of the poor and needy.

But only of the poor haven't caused their situation.

Only if they're not lazy or criminal or abusing the system.

The ones that say that children would learn about going hungry or working for their food.

"...our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner—no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your sense."

C. S. Lewis ~ The Weight of Glory

Maybe you know the ones?

Who give from what they have too much.

Even doing so, they sigh, gripe and moan.

They are your neighbors.

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