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