TIME FOR A CHANGE?

TIME FOR A CHANGE?




Is it time
For a change
For you


Interiorly speaking I mean


ONLY you know
Where you are
In your relationship
With God and other people


“LIGHT DAWNS for the just;
And gladness-for the UPRIGHT of heart” Psalm 97:11


WHEN you look
Deep within your heart


What do you see?


I HOPE it it kindness-
GOODNESS-peace and-LOVE
(ALL the fruits of the spirit
As described in Galatians 5:22)


And NOT some other things
Like what Jesus said:


“What comes out of a person
Is what defiles them


For it is from WITHIN
Out of a person's heart
That evil thoughts come-


Sexual immorality-theft-murder-
Adultery-greed-malice-deceit-lawlessness-
Envy-slander-arrogance-folly


ALL these evils-
Come from inside
And defile a person” Mark 7:20-23


ONLY YOU
Know what lives
Inside of you


If it good and just
I ENCOURAGE YOU
To keep being upright


If it is anything else
MAYBE it is
TIME FOR A CHANGE?


“The RIGHTEOUS
Will rejoice in the Lord
And take refuge in him


ALL the upright in heart
Will glory in him” Psalm 64:10


“The Lord detests
The sacrifice of the wicked


But the PRAYER
Of the upright
PLEASES HIM” Proverbs 15:8


I encourage you
To LIVE UPRIGHT
Before the Lord


To live upright
In this world


IS it time
For a change
For you-for me


ONLY you know
The QUALITIES
You live with


And only I know
The qualities I live with


But I caution you
Do not rationalize
Bad behavior or bad thoughts


For if we do
We will become
ENTANGLED with negativity
And feel a lack of peace


And eventually the Holy Spirit
Will show us
To ourselves


“IF you really CHANGE
Your ways and your actions
And deal with each other JUSTLY
….....
I will let you LIVE
In this place
In the land I gave your ancestors
Forever and ever” Jeremiah 7:5-7


Is it TIME for you to change
I can't answer that


I can ONLY answer
For myself-as you can


BUT if you need to CHANGE
Your relationship with God


You will light up
WITH JOY and tranquility
When you do it


And the dawn
Will LIGHT within you
Just like
The psalmist describes above


Robert P. Wallman
10-9-15


Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.




2-4-2019