LOVING WITHOUT MEASURE

LOVING WITHOUT MEASURE
LOVING someone else
Is a GIFT from God=
It is the greatest gift
That we can BESTOW
On someone
And when we TRULY love someone
We do not use
A measuring stick=
We just love them
UNCONDITIONALLY
"I say to you
Something GREATER than the temple
Is here
If you knew
What this meant=
I DESIRE MERCY-
Not sacrifice........"                                                                                                                        Matthew 12:6-7
In today's reading
The Pharisees' accuse Jesus' disciples
Of BREAKING
The SABBATH LAW
But Jesus TURNS it around
As he so often does-
He turns it around-
UPSIDE DOWN=when he accuses
The priests
Of WORKING on the SABBATH
Jesus loved us all
UNCONDITIONALLY=WITHOUT MEASURE
He gave up his life
FOR US ALL!
"Give=and it will
Be given to you
A good MEASURE
Pressed down=shaken together
And running over
Will be poured
Into your lap
For with the MEASURE
You use=it will be
MEASURED to you"                                                                                                                     Luke 6:38
LOVING WITHOUT MEASURE
Means SACRIFICING yourself
For others=
It means
GIVING YOURSELF AWAY
And it means
You are living
A life of SERVICE
NOT living your life
To be served
As Jesus' life
PROVES so eloquently
"SERVE the Lord
With fear
And celebrate his rule
With trembling"                                                                                                                     Psalm 2:11
"If we are thrown
Into the blazing furnace
The Lord we SERVE
Is able to deliver us
From it
And he will deliver us
From Your Majesty's hand"                                                                                       Daniel 3:17
Jesus makes it CLEAR
That when we LOVE
WITHOUT MEASURE
It FREES us up=it
Does NOT BIND us
In any way
We are no longer
BURDENED with our own
Selfish need to win-
At all costs
When we love God
And when we love others
WITHOUT MEASURE
The love of God
Is MAGNIFIED
In the way
WE SERVICE OTHERS
Dear Lord=help us to
LOVE YOU-and to love others
So that we all know
The GLORY of God
And the PEACE OF CHRIST
In Jesus' name=and in the name=of our ALL LOVING FATHER
Robert P. Wallman
7-17-19

Ps        INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Deborah A. Meister