FINDING DIVINE FAVOR!

 

FINDING DIVINE FAVOR!

IMAGINE this=

You live in a small town

In a small country

You are a YOUNG teenage girl=

DREAMING of a husband and children=

Living a long-quiet life

Then one day=AN ANGEL

Appears to you and tells you=

You will be with child=

The MOTHER OF GOD

“Then the ANGEL said to her=

'Do NOT be afraid=Mary=

For you have FOUND FAVOR

With God'” Luke 1:30

How great is that?

But what would we do=

IF we found DIVINE FAVOR with God?

Finding favor=FINDING DIVINE FAVOR with God

“May the FAVOR-

Of the Lord our God

Rest on us=

Establish the work

Of our hands

For us--------

Yes=establish the work

Of our hands” Psalm 90:17

“The lips of the righteous

Know what FINDS FAVOR=

But the mouth

Of the wicked

Only what is perverse” Proverbs 10:32

“........to proclaim

The year of the LORD'S FAVOR

And the day of vengeance

To our God=to comfort

All who mourn” Isaiah 61:2

God had a PLAN

For Mary's life=

He sent a message to her

Through an ANGEL

That she would give birth

To a child named Jesus=

And she said YES

How about us?

Do we say yes to

God's PLANS for our life?

Mary was afraid

But she said YES

Because of ONE basic FACT

The angel told her

She had FOUND DIVINE FAVOR

With God

“Glory to God

In the highest heaven

And on earth=peace

To those on whom

HIS FAVOR RESTS” Luke 2:14

“All of you=clothe yourselves

With humility=toward one another=because

'God opposes the proud=

AND SHOWS FAVOR

To the humble'” 1 Peter 5:5

Just imagine the BLESSING

That God gave to Mary=but

It did NOT SHIELD her

From sorrow and pain

And it won't shield us either

But we can BE like Mary

And FIND DIVINE FAVOR with God

By following his plan=

For our lives

ONLY God can give us

The favor and the gifts

That we need=in this life

In Jesus' name=and in the name=of our ever LIFE-GIVING FATHER

Robert P. wallman

!2-12-20

Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH magazine by Father James McKarns