Wednesday, August 31, 2022

POPULAR OR NOT?

 







POPULAR OR NOT?


Our job in this WORLD

IS to be like Jesus=

To be A DISCIPLE

Of Jesus


It doesn't matter

IF we are successful-

It doesn't matter

If we are popular


BE LIKE Jesus=

Make the right decision-

Popular or not!=

LOVE LIKE Jesus


“........but because

You do NOT BELONG

To this world


And I have CHOSEN you

Out of the WORLD-

The world hates you”                                                                                                  John 15:19


We tend to think-

IF we are POPULAR

We are successful


NOTHING could be further

From the truth=just because

We get LARGE NUMBERS=it

Doesn't mean we are

On the RIGHT TRACK


WHEN Jesus was crucified=

He was probably-

The LEAST POPULAR PERSON

On this earth


Yet he was LIVING on

The right track=and the

Father PROVED him to be right

Through his RESURRECTION


POPULAR OR NOT?=

But the right track

BE in the world-

But not 

Of the world


“He rules the WORLD

In RIGHTEOUSNESS


And judges the people

With equity”                                                                                                                Psalm 9:8


“I was formed

Long ago

At the very beginning


When the WORLD

Came to be”                                                                                                                  Proverbs 8:23


“For God

So loved the WORLD


That he gave his ONE

And only Son-

That whoever


Believes in him-

Shall NOT perish-

But have ETERNAL LIFE”                                                                                                John 3:16


POPULAR OR NOT?=

Believe in God

Believe in Jesus

Do what IS RIGHT 


NONE of us like it=

Or want to be rejected


But we should be WARY

Of doing things

Just to be WELL-LIKED


It takes GUTS to do

What is RIGHT-

It takes gut

To do what=GOD

Calls us to do


DO=WHAT IS RIGHT 


In the first reading today-

In ACTS 16=we read about

PAUL and his companions


TRAVELING the road=the Father

Has called for them


We too=have been

CALLED=”OUT of the world”

To do what is RIGHT  


“So that you may

Be PROVED RIGHT 

When you speak


And PREVAIL when you judge”                                                                           Romans3:4


Live to LIVE LIKE JESUS=

Out of love=forgiveness=

And kindness


DON'T play the numbers game

In this world

To be POPULAR


Let us CHOOSE what God is

Telling us to do=

POPULAR OR NOT?


In Jesus' name=and in the name of God=our holy PREVAILING FATHER


Robert P. Wallman

5-24-19 and 8-31-2022



Ps         INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Terence Hegarty


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