POPULAR OR NOT?

POPULAR OR NOT?


Our job in this WORLD
IS to be like Jesus=
To be A DISCIPLE
Of Jesus


It doesn't matter
IF we are successful-
It doesn't matter
If we are popular


BE LIKE Jesus=
Make the right decision-
Popular or not!=
LOVE LIKE Jesus


“........but because
You do NOT BELONG
To this world


And I have CHOSEN you
Out of the WORLD-
The world hates you” John 15:19


We tend to think-
IF we are POPULAR
We are successful


NOTHING could be further
From the truth=just because
We get LARGE NUMBERS=it
Doesn't mean we are
On the RIGHT TRACK


WHEN Jesus was crucified=
He was probably-
The LEAST POPULAR PERSON
On this earth


Yet he was LIVING on
The right track=and the
Father PROVED him to be right
Through his RESURRECTION


POPULAR OR NOT?=
But the right track
BE in the world-
But not
Of the world


“He rules the WORLD
In RIGHTEOUSNESS


And judges the people
With equity” Psalm 9:8


“I was formed
Long ago
At the very beginning


When the WORLD
Came to be” Proverbs 8:23


“For God
So loved the WORLD


That he gave his ONE
And only Son-
That whoever


Believes in him-
Shall NOT perish-
But have ETERNAL LIFE” John 3:16


POPULAR OR NOT?=
Believe in God
Believe in Jesus
Do what IS RIGHT


NONE of us like it=
Or want to be rejected


But we should be WARY
Of doing things
Just to be WELL-LIKED


It takes GUTS to do
What is RIGHT-
It takes gut
To do what=GOD
Calls us to do


DO=WHAT IS RIGHT


In the first reading today-
In ACTS 16=we read about
PAUL and his companions


TRAVELING the road=the Father
Has called for them


We too=have been
CALLED=”OUT of the world”
To do what is RIGHT


“So that you may
Be PROVED RIGHT
When you speak


And PREVAIL when you judge” Romans3:4


Live to LIVE LIKE JESUS=
Out of love=forgiveness=
And kindness


DON'T play the numbers game
In this world
To be POPULAR


Let us CHOOSE what God is
Telling us to do=
POPULAR OR NOT?


In Jesus' name=and in the name of God=our holy PREVAILING FATHER


Robert P. Wallman
5-24-19




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Terence Hegarty