YOU BELONG TO GOD!

YOU BELONG TO GOD!


Our God-Our loving-
PROTECTIVE God
Is greater than the evil
In this world


If we but CHOOSE GOD


“Children-
Be on your guard
Against idols” 1 John 5:21


Easy to say
But not so easy
To do


There are so many things
In this world
That challenges us
To place them above God


Promising goodness
But NOT delivering


The idols of today are
The SAME as they always have been-
The things we put above God and families


Money and materialism-sex-alcohol-
Drugs-pornography-etc., etc., etc.


It can even be another person
Or group of people
That aren't any good for you


Don't sacrifice your lives
To the idols of this world


“If the world hates you
Keep in mind
That it
Hated me first


If you
Belonged to the world


It would love you
As its own


As it is
You do not belong
To the world


But I have CHOSEN YOU
Out of the world


That is WHY
The world hates you” John 15:18-19


You belong
TOTALLY to God


“Who has a claim against me
That I must pay?


Everything under heaven
BELONGS to me” Job 41:11


Eternal life
IS already in us


ALL we have to do
Is to KEEP our priorities in order


And choose GOD AND FAMILY
Over the idols
In this world


CHOOSE what is true and good
For our souls


“Now CHOOSE LIFE
So that you
And your children may live


And that you may LOVE
The Lord your God
Listen to his voice
And hold fast to him


For the Lord
IS YOUR LIFE
And he will give you
MANY years in the land


He swore to give
To your fathers-
Abraham-Isaac-and Jacob” Deuteronomy 30:19-20


And we must always REMEMBER
We are the ADOPTED CHILDREN
Of God


We are inquisitive
We are tempted


We can REACH
For God and FAMILY
And the good things
Of this world


Or we can choose
The idols of our world
(sex-money-worldly values-etc., etc., etc.)


What path
Are you going to choose?


The choice is ours
But remember


YOU BELONG TO GOD!


Robert P. Wallman
1-8-16


INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sister Macrina Wiederkehr,, O.S.B.


Ps 12-16-&-17-18