GOD IS ENCOURAGING US=
This Lent
We all have CHOICES
To make=in this world
About what is GOOD FOR US
It seems these days
THE CHOICES=
Are harder than ever=
But our reading today
Tells us=
They have always been hard
Even in MOSES’ TIME
“In those days=
In their THIRST for water
The people grumbled
Against Moses=saying
‘WHY did you ever make us
Leave Egypt?=Was it just
To have us DIE HERE=of thirst
With our children=and our livestock?’”
Exodus 17:3
I can IDENTIFY
With these people=Can you?
With the CHOICE of
What to do=and NOT
To do=it is very difficult
IN TODAY’S WORLD TOO
I don’t want to make
DIFFICULT CHOICES=
I don’t want to leave
Old habits=and UNLOVING BEHAVIORS BEHIND
But our God is=ENCOURAGING US
To choose him=this Lent=to draw
EVEN CLOSER to him=
Even when things are very tough
“You Lord=
Hear the desire of the afflicted=
YOU ENCOURAGE THEM
And you listen=to their cry” Psalm
10:17
“Judas and Silas=
Who themselves were prophets
Said much to ENCOURAGE=
And strengthen the believers”
Acts 15:32
“Therefore=ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER=
With these words”
1 Thessalonians 4:18
We KNOW
God ENCOURAGED and gave
The Jewish people WATER=
When Moses struck the rock
Of Mount Horeb=with his staff
And the Lord our God
Will deliver us=FROM OUR PROBLEMS
If we do NOT TURN BACK=if we
DRAW closer to God
GOD IS ENCOURAGING US=
This Lent
“But=ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER=daily
As long as=it is called “TODAY”
So that none of you
May be hardened=by sin’s deceitfulness”
Hebrews 3:13
Can’t you just HEAR our Lord=
Hear the Jewish people=from yesterday
ENCOURAGING US?
Telling us=you will
MAKE it too
GOD IS ENCOURAGING US
THIS LENT!
In Jesus’ name=and in the name=of our EVER PERSISTENT and
leading=Holy Father God!
Robert P. Wallman
3-11-2023
Ps INSPIRED=by
an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Sr. Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.
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