COUNTING THE COST!
Today we have
The story
Of the RICH YOUNG MAN
Who wants to know
What he must do
To enter into ETERNAL LIFE
COUNTING THE COST!
“Just then a man
Came up to Jesus
And asked
'Teacher=what good thing
MUST I do to
Get ETERNAL LIFE?'” Matthew 19:16
“'Why do you ask me
About what is good?'
Jesus replied
'There is only ONE
Who is good
If you want to enter life
Keep the commandments'” Matthew 19:17
Which ones he says?
Jesus RECITES some of
The commandments=and then says
“........You shall LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR
As yourself” Matthew 19:19
COUNTING THE COST
To heaven=
Counting the COST
TO ETERNAL LIFE
It isn't easy to LOVE OTHERS
More than ourselves=Loving ourselves
Should come naturally
I WONDER if we
Have become like
The rich young man=
Just a little bit
WANTING to follow Jesus
Yet COUNTING THE COST
I hope we respond=and
NOT walk away SAD
Like the rich young man
“The beginning of wisdom
Is this=get wisdom
Though it COST all
You have=get understanding” Proverbs 4:7
“Come all you
Who are thirsty
Come to the waters
And you
Who have no money
Come-buy and eat
Come buy wine and milk
Without money and
WITHOUT COST” Isaiah 55:1
“To the thirsty
I will give water
WITHOUT COST
From the spring
Of the water of life” Revelation 21:6
WHEN we come to
The TERMS of the COST
Of following Jesus
May we turn
TOWARD JESUS
And not away
Like the rich young man did
May we ACCEPT OURSELVES
And others
Just the way
That JESUS accepts us
And may we LOVE OTHERS
In just the same way
As we LOVE OURSELVES
IF following the commandments
Is the way
To ETERNAL LIFE
May we do so
WITHOUT COUNTING COST
May we ALWAYS love
God and Jesus number one
And love others
Just the same way
We love ourselves
WITHOUT COUNTING THE COST!
In Jesus' name
Robert P. Wallman
8-16-20
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Bridget Haase, O.S.U.
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