A GOD-CENTERED LIFE

A GOD-CENTERED LIFE


It is NOT always
An easy thing to do
In today's world


But we are CALLED UPON
By God=
To LIVE a God-centered life
A life in which we
RECOMMIT ourselves to according
To the WAYS OF GOD


Living by OFFERING our lives
Up to God=live by LOVING
As many others as we can


And live by SPREADING
Forgiveness and KINDNESS to everyone
That we can=NOT just
When it makes us
LOOK GOOD


“Do not be sad=
Do not weep........” Nehemiah 8:9


In today's first reading
EZRA calls the people together
And COMMENDS the people
For rebuilding
The city of Jerusalem


But then he says
“NOW it's time
To start rebuilding
OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES”


And isn't that the way
That it is=sometimes we LAPSE
From God


And we need to REBUILD
Our lives
We need to rebuild
A GOD-CENTERED LIFE


But we don't need to be sad
For like Ezra says=God
Always gives us
ANOTHER CHANCE


Let us go back to God=if
We have lapsed and rebuild our
Lives by living a
God-centered life


“........to REBUILD the house
Of God=in Jerusalem
And the prophets of God
Were with them
Supporting them” Ezra 5:2


“For the Lord
Will REBUILD Zion
And appear in his glory” Psalm 102:16


The SCRIPTURES today
Are calling us back
To a GOD-CENTERED
Way of life


Paul REMINDS us that each and
EVERY ONE of us are valuable
And that Jesus has a
SPECIAL spiritual purpose in mind=


To BRING glad tidings to
The poor and to those
Who are HURTING


So when we RECOMMIT ourselves
To God's ways=we are to
BRING HOPE to all those
Who are hurting too


Let people know that you
Are a COMMITTED CHRISTIAN=
That you love God and
LOVE THEM
In your ways


“Consider the ravens=
They do not sow
Or reap


They have no storeroom
Or barn=yet God feeds them
And how much more VALUABLE
You are than birds” Luke 12:24


The WORD of God
Was fulfilled in
Jesus' own time


And EVERY TIME
One of us come back to God
And recommit to a=
A GOD CENTERED LIFE


The Word of God is fulfilled
IN our own time too


In Jesus' name and in the NAME of GOD=our ALL LOVING FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
1-27-19




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. Martin Pable, O.F.M., Cap.