MAKE GOD A PRIORITY

MAKE GOD A PRIORITY
(CHANGE=FOR THE BETTER)
WHAT WOULD YOU DO=If Jesus=
Said to you="FOLLOW ME?"
Somehow-when READING and praying
The scriptures=it is easy for us
To IMAGINE us doing just that
In today's gospel=that is EXACTLY
What the gospel writer=Saint Matthew does
"He said to him-'FOLLOW ME'-And he got up
And followed him"                                                                                   Matthew 9:9
And yet somehow-today-
WHEN we read the gospel
When we PRAY
When we feel like
God is ASKING something of us
We DRAG our feet
We resist
And we worry about
How what God is ASKING of us
Is going to INTERFERE
With our own plans
We NEED to Make God
A PRIORITY in our lives
We need to CHANGE for
THE BETTER
We need to LOVE GOD and
Others first=and ourselves second
CAN we really do that?
YES we can really do that
We CAN make God a PRIORITY
In our lives-
Yes we really can
CHANGE for the better
"If you really change your ways
And your ACTIONS-
And deal with each other justly
If you do NOT
Oppress the foreigner-
The fatherless-or the widow
And do NOT shed innocent blood
In this place
And if you do not follow
OTHER gods
To your own harm
........"                                                                                             Jeremiah 7:5-6
YES=the EXTENSION of the
Offer of Jesus to Matthew=
APPLIES to all of us=
"COME FOLLOW ME"
We just need to say YES
To God=yes to Jesus
When we do=we can't help
But become different=we can't HELP
But serving and INFLUENCINING others
And we will CHANGE=
For the BETTER
"We too=
Will SERVE the Lord
Because he is OUR GOD"                                                                    Joshua 24:18
"You my brothers and sisters
Were called to be FREE
But do NOT use your freedom
To indulge the flesh
Rather=SERVE one another=
HUMBLY IN LOVE"                                                                                Galatians 5:13
We CAN make GOD
A PRIORITY=we can
Change FOR THE BETTER
Through each act of SELFLESS LOVE
Our hearts and minds
Become JOINED more closely
To Christ
Dear Lord=we PRAY that you=
Give us the COURAGE
To FOLLOW you more CLOSELY
And let you
CHANGE OUR LIVES
In the NAME of JESUS OUR LORD
Robert P. Wallman
7-6-17

Ps  INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Julia Walsh
       F.S.P.A.