HE LIVED it.
SAINT PATRICK.
And today is his day of remembrance.
But not so much in wearing green and drinking green,
but in really remembering
who he was.
A teen.
Kidnapped to Ireland to as a slave to herd and tend sheep.
He reached out in FAITH to GOD.
“The love of GOD and HIS fear grew in me more and more,
as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same. I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain” (St. Patrick).
He had a dream from GOD telling him to leave Ireland.
He escaped at the age of 20.
He returned to Britain and to his family.
He became a priest.
He became a bishop.
He preached the Gospel throughout Ireland,
Many received JESUS.
He lived in poverty.
He lived his purpose~
LIVING FOR CHRIST,
for
JESUS LIVED IN HIM
so that he was
FEARLESSLY LIVING FOR JESUS.
For he had only one FEAR,
THE FEAR OF THE LORD~
"Let all the earth FEAR THE LORD [revere and worship HIM];
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of HIM" (Psalm 33:8).
What a great reminder today
on ST. PATRICK'S DAY
to
FEAR GOD.
Stand IN AWE OF HIM.
REVERE & WORSHIP HIM.
Any other FEAR
diminishes
when
it is
GOD whom you FEAR.
If you FEAR _________,
picture GOD next to your FEAR.
What happens to your FEAR?
BIG GOD, little FEAR.
BIG FEAR, little god.
If GOD is for you, who can be against you?*
Who do you FEAR?
When you FEAR a person,
what are you really
FEARING?
Is it REJECTION?
Is it PAIN?
Is it JUDGEMENT?
But when you
FEAR GOD
there is
ACCEPTANCE
there is
HEALING
there is
GRACE.
"If GOD is for you, who can be against you?
Since HE did not spare even HIS own SON, but gave HIM up for us all,
won’t HE also give us everything else?"*
Why FEAR another human being?
"Who dares accuse us whom GOD has chosen for HIS own?
No one—for GOD HIMSELF has given us right standing with HIMSELF.
Who then will condemn us? No one~for CHRIST JESUS
died for us and was raised to life for us..."*
If GOD is for you, who can be against you?
"Can anything ever separate us from CHRIST'S love?
Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death...
No, despite all these things,
overwhelming victory is ours through CHRIST, who loved us"*
If GOD is for you, who can be against you?
"..neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow..." *(Romans 8).
So why FEAR human beings
when you can
FEAR GOD
by
BELIEVING HIM
by
LOVING HIM
by
LOVING JESUS.
If GOD is for you, who can be against you?
For no one will ever ever ever
and can never ever ever
snatch you out of HIS hands (John 10:28)
Because~
"CHRIST with me.
CHRIST before me.
CHRIST behind me.
CHRIST in me.
CHRIST beneath me.
CHRIST above me.
CHRIST on my right.
CHRIST on my left.
CHRIST when I lie down.
CHRIST when I sit down
.CHRIST when I arise"
(Saint Patrick).
Saint Patrick not only said it
but LIVED it,
because he LIVED IN CHRIST.
So let's LIVE IN CHRIST too
and
FAST from any FEAR that comes knocking at your door
by
SEEING JESUS EVERYWHERE,
because
"IF YOU GOT JESUS"
JESUS GOT YOU!
(listen to the song below)
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