A GOD-CENTERED LIFE

 

A GOD-CENTERED LIFE

It is NOT always

An easy thing to do

In today's world

But we are CALLED UPON

By God=

To LIVE a God-centered life

A life in which we

RECOMMIT ourselves to according

To the WAYS OF GOD 

Living by OFFERING our lives

Up to God=live by LOVING

As many others as we can

And live by SPREADING

Forgiveness and KINDNESS to everyone

That we can=NOT just

When it makes us

LOOK GOOD

“Do not be sad=

Do not weep........”                                                                                     Nehemiah 8:9

In today's first reading

EZRA calls the people together

And COMMENDS the people

For rebuilding

The city of Jerusalem

But then he says

“NOW it's time

To start rebuilding

OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES”

And isn't that the way

That it is=sometimes we LAPSE

From God 

And we need to REBUILD 

Our lives

We need to rebuild 

A GOD-CENTERED LIFE

But we don't need to be sad

For like Ezra says=God

Always gives us

ANOTHER CHANCE

Let us go back to God=if

We have lapsed and rebuild our

Lives by living a

God-centered life

“........to REBUILD the house

Of God=in Jerusalem

And the prophets of God 

Were with them

Supporting them”                                                                                                 Ezra 5:2

“For the Lord

Will REBUILD Zion

And appear in his glory”                                                                                        Psalm 102:16

The SCRIPTURES today

Are calling us back

To a GOD-CENTERED

Way of life

Paul REMINDS us that each and

EVERY ONE of us are valuable

And that Jesus has a

SPECIAL spiritual purpose in mind=

To BRING glad tidings to

The poor and to those

Who are HURTING

So when we RECOMMIT ourselves

To God's ways=we are to

BRING HOPE to all those

Who are hurting too

Let people know that you

Are a COMMITTED CHRISTIAN=

That you love God and

LOVE THEM

In your ways

“Consider the ravens=

They do not sow

Or reap

They have no storeroom

Or barn=yet God feeds them

And how much more VALUABLE

You are than birds”                                                                                                 Luke 12:24

The WORD of God 

Was fulfilled in

Jesus' own time

And EVERY TIME

One of us come back to God 

And recommit to a=

A GOD CENTERED LIFE

The Word of God is fulfilled

IN our own time too

In Jesus' name and in the NAME of GOD=our ALL LOVING FATHER

Robert P. Wallman

1-27-19 and 4-20-2022

Ps         INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Fr. Martin Pable, O.F.M., Cap.