I had a disruption so didn’t actually complete my last post.
Anyway, see how it all works? We poor sinners have that human tendency to listen to the siren call of compartmentalizing our fellow human beings. We paste labels on them...never seeming to grasp that in doing so we put a label on ourselves.
Somehow we seem to (conveniently) forget that we are to see and serve all we meet as if we were seeing and serving the Lord himself. We fail to recognize Him, even though we know He said “Whatsoever you do.....” and as Peter would later write: “You must esteem the person of every man.” (1Peter2:17)
So, our group is finding that we are learning ways to talk with all we meet at their doors, and to give them a genuine respect and whenever and however we can, to be a moment of grace and encouragement to them, no matter what their profession of faith happens to be...because we can never really know them as they are before the Living God.
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“God addresses every individual by a name that no one else knows, as Scripture tells us ( Rev.2:17). God’s love for each individual is totally personal and includes this mystery of a uniqueness that cannot be divulged to other human beings.”
Pope Benedict XVI “Jesus of Nazareth”
Ping
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
Look! PLURAL!!
Do YOU know your 'name'?