Our Lady in Medjugorje invites you to be the outstretched hands of God

Message dated February 25, 1997
Dear children, also today I invite you in a particular way to open yourselves to God the Creator and become active. At this time I invite you, children, to see who needs your spiritual or material help. By your example, children, you will be the outstretched hands of God, whom humanity seeks. Only in this way will you understand that you are called to witness and become joyful bearers of the word and love of God. Thank you for having responded to my call!
Some passages from the Bible that can help us understand this message.
Proverbs 24,23-29
These too are words of the wise. Having personal preferences in court is not good. If one says to the example: "You are innocent", the peoples will curse him, the people will execute him, while everything will be fine for those who do justice, the blessing will pour on them. The one who answers with straight words gives a kiss on the lips. Arrange your business outside and do the field work and then build your house. Don't testify lightly against your neighbor and don't fool with your lips. Do not say: "As he did to me, so I will do to him, I will make everyone as they deserve".
Matthew 18,1-5
At that moment the disciples approached Jesus saying: "Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?". Then Jesus called a child to himself, placed him among them and said: “Truly I say to you, if you do not convert and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever becomes small like this child will be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And anyone who welcomes even one of these children in my name welcomes me.
2 Timothy 1,1-18
Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to announce the promise of life in Christ Jesus to the beloved son Timothy: grace, mercy and peace on the part of God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God, that I serve with pure conscience like my ancestors, always remembering you in my prayers, night and day; your tears come back to me and I feel the longing to see you again to be full of joy. In fact, I remember your sincere faith, faith that was first in your grandmother Lòide, then in your mother Eunìce and now, I am sure, also in you. For this reason, I remind you to revive the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands. In fact, God did not give us a spirit of shyness, but of strength, love and wisdom. So do not be ashamed of the testimony to be given to our Lord, nor to me, who are in prison for him; but you too suffer together with me for the gospel, helped by the strength of God. In fact he saved us and called us with a holy vocation, not already on the basis of our works, but according to his purpose and his grace; grace that has been given to us in Christ Jesus from eternity, but was revealed only now with the appearance of our savior Christ Jesus. He who overcame death and made life and immortality shine through the gospel, of which I was made herald, apostle and teacher. This is the cause of the evils I suffer, but I am not ashamed of it: in fact I know who I believed and I am convinced that he is capable of keeping the deposit that has been entrusted to me until that day. Take as a model the healthy words you have heard from me, with the faith and charity that are in Christ Jesus. Guard the good deposit with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us. You know that all those of Asia, including Fìgelo and Ermègene, have abandoned me. May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesìforo, because he has repeatedly comforted me and is not ashamed of my chains; indeed, when he came to Rome, he looked for me with care, until he found me. May the Lord grant him to find mercy with God on that day. And how many services he has rendered in Ephesus, you know better than I do.