TEACHING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD

TEACHING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD Our God-our Lord Jesus-is The MOST important entity And the MOST important God-man Whoever walked this earth It is up To EACH one of us To PATTERN our life After Jesus And LIVE as RIGHTEOUS A life as possible But NOT self-righteous By any reason-for- NONE of us are that good “CHILDREN-let no one Deceive you- The person who ACTS in righteousness is righteous Just-as he IS RIGHTEOUS” 1 John 3:7 Our God/our Jesus IS a righteous God He was ALWAYS looking For TEACHABLE MOMENTS BOTH in actions & words To PASS it on to his disciples And it is up to US-to LEARN From Jesus too-from both his actions And his words Jesus taught his disciples=and as His MODERN day disciples We are to learn his ways too And to PASS his ways on To others-by being LIVING EXAMPLES Of his righteousness Just the way-Jesus- Himself was Pass on & TEACH The righteousness of God The righteousness of Jesus “KEEP my commands And you will live Guard my teachings As the APPLE of my eye” Proverbs 7:2 “ANYONE Who chooses to do The WILL of God Will find out WHETHER my teaching Comes from God Or whether I speak On my own” John 7:17 Of course-Jesus teachings was NOT only Of his OWN free will But also WORDS of God-for- The Father was & IS Jesus' Father=for ALL of eternity AND ours Jesus was & is ( we learn by READING SCRIPTURE) The living WORD-the living& LOVING God The EXAMPLE of RIGHTEOUSNESS Forever more And it is UP to us To do our BEST-to demonstrate-as CHRISTIANS That righteousness-in words and deeds “He RULES the world in righteousness And judges the peoples In equity” Psalm 9:8 TEACHABLE moments Teaching the righteousness Of God and of Jesus TODAY-we also celebrate The feast of-Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton ( 1774-1821) She was a widow and the FOUNDER Of the Catholic school system In the U.S. And she taught people About our DIVINE teacher Our “RABBI”=as Jesus Is called in today's Gospel Just as John the Baptist- And Jesus apostles BROUGHT people to God It is UP TO US As his Christian followers To do the SAME USING teachable moments To BRING others to God and Jesus By pointing out HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS In BOTH word and deed In Jesus' name, Robert P. Wallman 1-3-17 Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Terence Hegarty