Monday, December 5, 2022

WITH A SINCERE HEART

 







WITH A SINCERE HEART


One of the BEST COMPLIMENTS=

I ever received=

Was from a local PASTOR=

A number of years ago


He said to me=

“You are the MOST SINCERE person

I have ever met”


What a great compliment=after all

Who had a more sincere heart

Than Jesus=NO ONE

He always did

What he said


''By what authority

Are you doing these things?”                                                                             Matthew 21:23


The RELIGIOUS=at the time

Of Jesus=looked down

Upon him


In today's GOSPEL=

The chief priest and leaders

TRY to put Jesus

In a corner


But Jesus TURNED the tables

On them=and puts them

On the SPOT


Their question-

Was a TRAP=

But they were the ones

CAUGHT in it


You just can't trap Jesus=

He lives with a SINCERE HEART


“Love must be SINCERE=

Hate what is evil-

Cling to what is good


Be devoted

To ONE ANOTHER in love=

Honor one another=above yourselves”                                                                   Romans 12:9


“........let us draw near to God

WITH A SINCERE HEART


And with the full assurance

That faith brings


Having our hearts sprinkled

To cleanse us

From a guilty conscience


And having our bodies washed

With pure water”                                                                                                      Hebrews 10:20


The religious of Jesus' day

WERE BLIND-

To the heavenly source

Of the teachings

Of both John and Jesus


Jesus tells them

That BOTH tax collectors

And prostitutes


Have RESPONDED to the

Call of God=much BEFORE

The learned and the powerful


Being clean=and living

With a SINCERE HEART=

BEING HONEST


“Create in me

A pure HEART=oh God

And renew a steadfast spirit

Within me”                                                                                                                    Psalm 51:10


“Trust in the Lord

With all YOUR HEART

And lean not

On your own understanding”                                                                                      Proverbs 3:5


“Now that you have

Purified yourselves


By obeying the truth

So that you 

HAVE SINCERE LOVE

For each other


Love one another deeply

FROM THE HEART”                                                                                       1 Peter 1:22


There is a LESSON here

For all of us


Don't try debating points

But RESPOND

WITH SINCERITY=and humility

Of the heart


In Jesus' name=and in the name=of OUR EVER SINCERE and honest holy FATHER!


Robert P. Wallman

12-13-21 and 12-05-2022



Ps        INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Greg Erlandson

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