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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