Monday, November 3, 2008
Yesterday at St. Paul’s, just as in many churches, we celebrated All Saints’ Sunday. Each year on November 1, Christians all over the world stop, remember, give thanks, and worship. For each November 1 is All Saints’ Day, or All Hallows’ Day.
We may think of the saints as people different from us. But in its most basic form, the term “saint” simply means “one who is being sanctified, or made holy by the Holy Spirit at work within him or her.” So, if you are hearing the sound of my voice, and if you have asked the Spirit of Jesus Christ to come into your heart and life and make you like Jesus, make you holy, then you, my friend, are a saint. Just like the 14 people our church named on Sunday, those who have been removed from our membership roll to the membership roll of the Church Expectant in heaven, you and I are created and called to be saints, people who show those around us what God is like, people who are being made more like Jesus by the Holy Spirit each day. You are a saint.
Never thought of yourself that way? Well, start. Each day, wake up and say to yourself in the mirror: “I am a saint. Lord, help me behave like one.”
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