WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? - One Bread, One Body, 1/26/2008

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Saturday, January 26, 2008, Sts. Timothy & Titus

2 Timothy 1:1-8 or, Titus 1:1-5, Psalm 96, Luke 10:1-9
Link to Readings --> http://www.usccb.org/nab/012608.shtml

WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?

"With the strength which comes from God bear your share of the hardship
which the gospel entails." —2 Timothy 1:8

Many of you have laid down your lives in the service of God's people.
Priests, religious sisters, and religious brothers have given up money,
careers, independence, marriage, and sexual relations in answer to God's
call. Married couples have made supreme sacrifices for spouses and
children. Those single for the Lord have fought the devil's temptations
and our society's pressures, and have been pure as Jesus is pure (1 Jn
3:3).

Yet after years of self-sacrificing commitments, you look at the Church,
your family, and your life and wonder if it was worth it (Is 49:4). Loud
and clear, God's word to you is: "It is worth it." Growth in God's kingdom
is often not immediately noticeable (Mk 4:27). Even the growth we do see
begins small, like a mustard seed (Mk 4:31). Nonetheless, God is working.

"For this reason, I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God bestowed
when my hands were laid on you" (2 Tm 1:6). "Stay with this task whether
convenient or inconvenient — correcting, reproving, appealing — constantly
teaching and never losing patience" (2 Tm 4:2). "Do not, then, surrender
your confidence; it will have great reward. You need patience to do God's
will and receive what He has promised" (Heb 10:35-36).

Prayer: Father, replace my regrets with joyful hopes.

Promise: "I thank God, the God of my forefathers Whom I worship with a
clear conscience, whenever I remember you in my prayers — as indeed I do
constantly, night and day." —2 Tm 1:3

Praise: "Thanks be to God, Who has put an equal zeal for you in the heart
of Titus!" (2 Cor 8:16)

(For a related teaching, order our tape "Hold Fast to the Faith" on audio
AV 71-1 or video V-71.)

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December 1, 2007 through January 31, 2008
†Reverend Joseph R. Binzer, Vicar General Archdiocese of Cincinnati, July
30, 2007

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free of doctrinal or moral error. It is not implied that those who have
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