Called To Holiness

The Church celebrates the martyrdom of St. Charles Lwanga and 21 other young Ugandans in the 1880's who stood up against their king rather than sacrifice their faith. They stand today as models of a simple, steadfast faith.when we are confronted  with brutality, violence, injustice and blatant hatred, just as they were.  They were marched to a place of execution and burned to death in bundles of dry branches, a painfully excruciating death but a small price for the love of a  God they had just recently come to know.
St. Paul wrote to Timothy:  "I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of my hands.  For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather of power and love and self-control.....He saved us and called us to a holy life, not according to our works but according to his own design and the grace bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before time began...." (2 Tim 1: 6,7,9)
The young Ugandan Christians lived these words and by their witness teach them to us. It was not their efforts alone, but the power of Christ working in them. May we have ears to hear and hearts to follow the grace of Christ working in us.
Bro. Rene