THERE IS A BETTER WAY TO LIVE

 

THERE IS A BETTER WAY TO LIVE=

LIVE WITH MERCY AND COMPASSION

Today=on my 63rd BIRTHDAY=I want

To REMIND YOU ALL

That there is a BETTER WAY

To LIVE

Show MERCY AND COMPASSION=pay it

FORWARD=LIVE with LOVE=forget bitterness

Forget revenge

There is a BETTER WAY

To live

(Saul said to David)=”For if a man

MEETS his enemy=

Does he send him away UNHARNED?

May the Lord always REWARD you=generously=

For WHAT you have done

THIS DAY”                                                                                                                1 Samuel 24:20

Other than Jesus' own life=there is

No better way of LIVING with

MERCY and COMPASSION 

Than David=SPARING Saul's life

Over and over again

DESPITE the fact that Saul

Was TRYING to kill David

PAY IT FORWARD=live

With MERCY AND COMPASSION

“Remember Lord=

Your great mercy and love

For they are from

Of old”                                                                                                                  Psalm 25:6

“BLESSED are the merciful

For they

Will be SHOWN MERCY”                                                                                           Matthew 5:7

“But because 

Of his GREAT LOVE

For us

God=who is rich

In MERCY

Made us ALIVE

With Christ

EVEN when we were dead

In transgressions

It is by GRACE

You have been SAVED”                                                                                             Ephesians 2:4-5

And we should SHOW

That same grace=that same MERCY

That same love

To others=David did

THERE is a BETTER WAY

To live=PAY IT FORWARD=

Your love and compassion

It was PAYBACK TIME

For Saul=David's BIG CHANCE to

Get even

To TAKE Saul out of his life

For good=but INSTEAD

David offered MERCY and the CHANCE

For RECONCILIATION

David only CLIPPED Saul's robe

And SHOWED COMPASSION

“ALL this is from God

Who RECONCILED us to himself

Through CHRIST

And gave us

The ministry of RECONCILIATION=

That God was reconciling

The WORLD to himself

In CHRIST

NOT counting people's sins

Against them

And he has COMMITTED US to

The MESSAGE OF RECONCILIATION”                                                             2 Corinthians 5:18-19

PAY FORWARD love=mercy=and 

COMPASSION=it is the ONLY

WAY to live

It is the BETTER WAY

Robert P. Wallman

1-18-19 and 8-24-2022

Ps         INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Melanie Rigney

Pss     TODAY on my 63rd birthday=I just want to REMIND YOU

           That I LOVE YOU ALL very much

      

            And to PAY IT FORWARD

            You are ALL very SPECIAL to me

Love=Robert

1-19-18