Are you a fan or a follower?
(Of Christ.)
If you are a follower,
it will cost you
everything.
Jesus says “follow me” at least 20 times in all four Gospels.
6 occasions in Matthew, 4 in Mark, 5 in Luke, and 5 in John.
hugs n’ blessings to all the brave followers.
Brothers and sister: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For this is why Christ died. and came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.
Romans 14: 7-9
For life I choose thee now,
My pleasure, honor, friend,
Sole object of my vow,
Sole joy to which I tend.
For mercy’s sake, print, trace
Yourself upon my heart,
My arm, my forehead, face;
And not one blush will start.
Triumph of the Cross, St. Louis de Montfort – Stanza XXIX
hugs n’ blessings for all the times we choose to live life with the only purpose that truly matters!
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?
1 Corinthians 6:15
“Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity.
A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul; through the bodies of men and women Christ toils and endures and rejoices and loves and dies; in them he is increased, set free, imprisoned, restrained.
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