MUST BE BASED ON LOVE!
(Our Lives)
There is a QUESTION=
WE all must ask ourselves
Are we living our LIVES=
Are we pursuing=our spiritual practices
BASED on duty=OR ON LOVE
For us to be SUCCESSFUL=
We must be real=we must
BE=genuine and SINCERE
We must BASE our lives
Because we LOVE=WITH ALL OUR HEARTS!
Our lives=
MUST BE BASED ON LOVE!
“The disciples of John=Approached
Jesus and said’=
‘WHY do we we=
And the Pharisees fast so much=
But your disciples=do not fast?’
Jesus answered them=
‘CAN the wedding guests
Mourn as long=as the bridegroom
Is with them?’”
Matthew 9:14-15
I think we have
To look=a LITTLE MORE DEEPLY
At Jesus’ motivation
Jesus PICKED his disciples=
NOT for outward appearances
BUT FOR
Their CAPACITY to love=
The condition=OF THEIR HEARTS
It is not a question of what =but WHY
But why=we love
Our spiritual practices=
MUST BE BASED ON LOVE!
“He will LOVE YOU=
And bless you=and increase your numbers……..”
Deuteronomy 7:13
“The Lord=
LOVE righteousness=and justice
The earth is full
OF HIS UNFAILING LOVE” Psalm
33:5
“Hatred stirs up conflict=
BUT LOVE=covers over all wrongs”
Proverbs 10:12
Jesus had=such a FULL LOVING HEART
For us all=IN HIS APOSTLES
He was=looking for those
Who had thar SAME QUALITY
He got it right=11 out of 12
A pretty good average=and he knew
The ONE that would fail him
HOW ABOUT US?
Are we FOLLOWING JESUS
Out of love=or because
It is JUST A DUTY
Our lives
MUST BE BASED ON LOVE!
“But God demonstrates
HIS OWN LOVE=for us in this
While we were still sinners
CHRIST died for us”
Romans 5:8
It is all right=to have
SOME sense of duty=WE ALL DO
But we must be PRIMARILY MOTIVATED
BY LOVE
Love God=love Others
Our lives
MUST BE=BASED ON LOVE!
In Jesus’ name=and in the name=of our EVER LOVING Holy
Father God
Robert P. Wallman
2-23-2023
Ps INSPIRED=by
an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Sister Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.
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