FOCUSING ON GOD

FOCUSING ON GOD


It seems today=that many of us focus on “STUFF”=
On HOW MUCH we can accumulate


Wealth=cars=relationships=but what really
MATTERS is our LOVE OF GOD=and
Our LOVE OF OTHERS


Let us FOCUS on God=and our
RELATIONSHIP with him
This lent


“What profit is there
For ONE to gain the whole world
Yet lose or FORFEIT himself” Luke 9:25


There is one TRUISM about
Wealth and money=and it is
“You CAN'T TAKE IT with you”


And that is so true


In some corners of the world=
These days=there is a SIMPLICITY
Movement=it is also called MINIMALISM


This CALLS to mind the large
CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT=the movement
Of Saint Francis=and even
Jesus himself


LET GO of the physical=FOCUS=
On what really matters=
THE LOVE OF GOD=and
The love of OTHERS


FOCUSING ON GOD=keeping God
At the CENTER
Of our lives


Jesus thought so much of the
LOVE OF GOD and the love
Of others=that he IDENTIFIED them as
The TWO commandments that really matter


They “TESTED” Jesus with this question=
“Teacher-which is the greatest commandment
In the LAW?” Matthew 22:36


“Jesus replied='Love the Lord
Your God with all your heart
And with all your soul
And with all your mind'


This is the first and greatest
Commandment=and the second
Is like it:


'LOVE your neighbor as yourself'


All the LAW and prophets
Hang on these two commandments” Matthew 22:37-40


The love of God
And the LOVE of others


LENT is the perfect time
To EVALUATE our involvement
With STUFF


It is the time to FOCUS on our
Actions=on our choices=and on
RELATIONSHIP with OTHERS


FOCUS ON GOD=
CHOOSE God over materialism


Make love of God=love of others
Your number ONE choice
In this life


“This day
I call the heavens
And the earth=as WITNESSES
Against you


That I have set before you
Life and death=BLESSINGS and curses


Now CHOOSE LIFE
So that you and your children
May live=and that you may LOVE
The Lord your God...........” Deuteronomy 30:19-20


“You did NOT CHOOSE me
But I chose you-
And appointed you


So that you might go
And bear fruit--------
Fruit that will last---------


And so that
WHATEVER you ask in my name
The Father will give to you


This is my command=
LOVE ONE ANOTHER” John 15:16-17


Let us FOCUS on our RELATIONSHIP
With God the LENT=and keep him
NUMBER ONE in our lives


In Jesus' name and the name of HIS GLORIOUS FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
2-15-18




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Karla Manternach