DISCERNING OUR GOD!

DISCERNING OUR GOD!
We live complicated lives
Where our choices
ARE MANY
HOW do we know which way
Is right?
How do we know which way
IS GOOD?
Which way
Is the RIGHT WAY?
"In those days
Like a fire-
There appeared
The prophet Elijah
Whose words
Were a FLAMING FURNACE"                                                                                                        Sirach 48:1
The TRUTH is-we can't
Always be sure=IF
We are going
In the right direction
Sometimes we just
Have to PRAY
About a certain situation
WEIGH the pros and cons
And choose a DIRECTION
And move that way
DISCERNING OUR GOD!
"But who can DISCERN
Their own errors?
Forgive my hidden faults"                                                                                                         Psalm 19:12
"You DISCERN
My going out
And my lying down
You are familiar
With all my ways"                                                                                                                      Psalm 139:3
"And this is my prayer=
That your love
May abound more
And more
In knowledge and depth
Of insight
So that you may be able
TO DISCERN
What is best
And may be pure and blameless
For the day of Christ"                                                                                                                Philippians 1:9-10
And then there
Are those times=
When we feel
Like the HOLY SPIRIT
Is speaking
DIRECTLY to us
Our hearts are BURNING
With the prophetic words
The SPIRIT
Lays on our hearts
The SPIRIT OF GOD
Lays his words on our hearts
On EXACTLY
Which way to go
"Commit your WAY
To the LORD=
Trust in him=and
He will do this"                                                                                                                 Psalm 37:5
"Start your children off
On the WAY
They should go
And even when
They are old
They will not
TURN from it"                                                                                                                    Proverbs 22:6
PAY ATTENTION
To the word-
Of the Lord=
PRAY about his words
TURN these words
Over in your heart
And he will GUIDE YOU-
In the RIGHT WAY
To go
DISCERNING OUR GOD!=
Discerning the diredtion
Of the Lord
Lord=help us RECOGNIZE
The words you speak to
OUR HEART
In Jesus' name=and in the name=of our EVER DISCERNING FATHER
Robert P. Wallman
12-14-19

Ps        INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Karla Manternach