Saturday, August 20, 2022

NOT FOR SALE

 










NOT FOR SALE


We LIVE in a world

WHERE almost everything

Is for SALE


And we all LIKE to

Get a GOOD BARGAIN

From time to time


But Jesus was APPALLED

To FIND market places in

His churches and temples


And so am I


Some things just shouldn't be

For SALE=and anything spiritual

I put in that category


NOT FOR SALE!


“Take these out of here=

And STOP making my

FATHER'S HOUSE a marketplace”                                                                              John 2:16


I understand that people=that vendors

NEED to make a living=but we

Have to REMEMBER


That there is a TIME

And a PLACE

For everything


Some things just=shouldn't

Be for sale=and among them

ARE the word of God=and PRAYERS


I FEEL that way=Jesus

Felt that way=and Saint Paul

FELT THAT WAY


“Unlike so MANY

We do NOT

PEDDLE the word of God

For profit


On the contrary=IN CHRIST

We speak before God

With SINCERITY


As those SENT FROM GOD”                                                                                  2 Corinthians 2:17


The WORD of God=is=

NOT FOR SALE!


Some days we NEED=we want

Only a SPIRITUAL WALK

With thoughts and prayers

About Jesus


About the DIVINE=about love=

About mercy=and about SALVATION


Let us KEEP

Our WALK with God

Out of the marketplace


Let us keep our DIVINE WALK

Only with God=

Only with Jesus


“I will walk

About in FREEDOM


For I have

SOUGHT out your precepts”                                                                                          Psalm 119:45


“When you WALK

They will GUIDE YOU


When you sleep

They will watch

Over you


When you wake

They will SPEAK to you”                                                                                     Proverbs 6:22


It reminds me that

There is an age-old tension

BETWEEN the material and the spiritual


Between the earthly

And the ETERNAL


Between the marketplace

And the HOUSE

Of the Father


Let us ALWAYS REMEMBER that

The marketplace does not

Belong in the FATHER'S house


And that the WORD of God

Is NEVER FOR SALE


In life=the BEST bargains=

The ONLY real and TRUE bargains

Are SPIRITUAL ONES


And they are NOT FOR SALE


In the names of Jesus and HIS MOST HEAVENLY FATHER


Robert P. Wallman

3-3-18 and 8-20-2022



Ps          INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Father James McKARNS



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