Wednesday, August 25, 2021

FOCUSING ON GOD

 











FOCUSING ON GOD


It seems today=that many of us focus on “STUFF”=

On HOW MUCH we can accumulate


Wealth=cars=relationships=but what really

MATTERS is our LOVE OF GOD=and

Our LOVE OF OTHERS


Let us FOCUS on God=and our

RELATIONSHIP with him

This lent


“What profit is there

For ONE to gain the whole world

Yet lose or FORFEIT himself”                                                                                     Luke 9:25


There is one TRUISM about

Wealth and money=and it is

“You CAN'T TAKE IT with you”


And that is so true


In some corners of the world=

These days=there is a SIMPLICITY

Movement=it is also called MINIMALISM 


This CALLS to mind the large

CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT=the movement

Of Saint Francis=and even

Jesus himself


LET GO of the physical=FOCUS=

On what really matters=

THE LOVE OF GOD=and

The love of OTHERS


FOCUSING ON GOD=keeping God

At the CENTER

Of our lives


Jesus thought so much of the

LOVE OF GOD and the love

Of others=that he IDENTIFIED them as

The TWO commandments that really matter


They “TESTED” Jesus with this question=

“Teacher-which is the greatest commandment

In the LAW?”                                                                                                           Matthew 22:36


“Jesus replied='Love the Lord

Your God with all your heart

And with all your soul

And with all your mind'


This is the first and greatest

Commandment=and the second

Is like it:


'LOVE your neighbor as yourself'


All the LAW and prophets

Hang on these two commandments”                                                                            Matthew 22:37-40


The love of God

And the LOVE of others


LENT is the perfect time

To EVALUATE our involvement

With STUFF


It is the time to FOCUS on our 

Actions=on our choices=and on

RELATIONSHIP with OTHERS


FOCUS ON GOD=

CHOOSE God over materialism


Make love of God=love of others

Your number ONE choice

In this life


“This day

I call the heavens

And the earth=as WITNESSES 

Against you


That I have set before you

Life and death=BLESSINGS and curses


Now CHOOSE LIFE

So that you and your children

May live=and that you may LOVE

The Lord your God...........”                                                                                   Deuteronomy 30:19-20


“You did NOT CHOOSE me

But I chose you-

And appointed you


So that you might go

And bear fruit--------

Fruit that will last---------


And so that

WHATEVER you ask in my name

The Father will give to you


This is my command=

LOVE ONE ANOTHER”                                                                                        John 15:16-17


Let us FOCUS on our RELATIONSHIP

With God the LENT=and keep him

NUMBER ONE in our lives


In Jesus' name and the name of HIS GLORIOUS FATHER


Robert P. Wallman

2-15-18 and 8-25-2021



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



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