YOUR LIFE STANDS ALONE

YOUR LIFE STANDS ALONE

 

Do you KNOW that God

Gave you ONE LIFE to live

And it STANDS ALONE on its

OWN MERIT?

 

What you do with it=or what

You DON’T DO with it

 

There are to be NO COMPARISONS

 

“WHOEVER humbles himself

Like this child

Is the GREATEST

 

In the KINGDOM of heaven”                                                                                            Matthew 18:4

 

HUMILITY is the greatest quality

That we can have=children ACCEPT

How things are=they LOVE=and they

Are NOT always trying to compare

 

We should REMEMBER to live lives

Like little children=we should remember

To LET our lives STAND ALONE=

NOT to compare

 

“For what was GLORIOUS

Has no glory now

In comparison

With the SURPASSING GLORY”                                                                                    2 Corinthians 3:10

 

IF you are going to COMPARE=

Compare yourself to CHRIST=and

How MUCH LOVE that you have

 

But DON’T COMPARE yourself even there

Just FOLLOW Christ in LOVE=

Live with ALL THE LOVE

That you can muster

 

“SURELY your goodness and love

Will FOLLOW ME

All the days

Of my life

 

And I will DWELL

In the house of the LORD=FOREVER”                                                                                                   Psalm 23:6

 

“Then a TEACHER of the law

Came to Jesus and said

‘Teacher-I will FOLLOW YOU

WHEREVER YOU GO’”                                                                                                                  Matthew 8:19

 

Yes=let us NOT COMPARE

Our lives to ONE ANOTHER

 

Let us FOLLOW Jesus

And his WAYS OF LOVE

 

“I am not commanding you

But I want

To TEST the sincerity

Of your LOVE

 

By COMPARING it

With the earnestness

Of others”                                                                                                                                       2 Corinthians 8:8

 

“EACH ONE

Should test their OWN ACTIONS

 

Then they can take PRIDE

In themselves alone

WITHOUT COMPARING themselves

To someone else”                                                                                                                                   Galatians 6:4

 

Dear FRIENDS=

OUR LIVES STAND ALONE

 

We cannot PUT the genie

BACK in the bottle=we GROW

Into adulthood=the BEST we can

HOPE FOR=is to CONTINUE to

LOVE LIKE a child=

FOREVER AND EVER

 

And NEVER COMPARE

In the name of Jesus and HIS MOST LOVING FATHER

 

Robert P. Wallman

9-29-17

 

 

Ps          INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Aileen O’Donoghue