TO A HIGHER STANDARD
Are you=A GOOD PERSON?
Are you=A BELIEVER in God
And considered=to be a CHRISTIAN?
If YOUR ANSWERS=to
These questions are YES=you
Are HELD TO A HIGHER STANDARD=
For our God and Lord=is DEPENDING ON YOU
To get the job done
A job of FAITH=a job of BELIEVING
“ALL of them differ=one from another
Yet none of them=has he MADE IN VAIN
For each in turn=as it comes=IS GOOD”
Sirach 42:25
Are we all good
I would like=to think so
But I know=that is NOT TRUE
For I see THE NEWS=each day
I see the crime=I see the domestic violence
I see the=IRRESPONSIBLE USE OF GUNS
Yet I KNOW
That there is a=TOUCH OF GOODNESS
In EVERY ONE of us
For we are MADE in
The IMAGE AND LIKENESS
Of our God and Jesus
IF we accept that fact
We have to Call ourselves
TO A HIGHER SATANDARD
We have to TRY
And live=like our God and Jesus
“Then God said=
‘Let us=make mankind=IN OUR IMAGE
In our likeness
So that they=may rule
Over the fish in the sea=the birds……..’”
Genesis 1:26
“For those God foreknew=
He also predestined=to be conformed
TO THE IMAGE=Of his Son…….” Romans
8:29
“And we all=
Who with unveiled faces=
Contemplate the Lord’s glory
Are being transformed=INTO HIS IMAGE
With an ever-increasing glory
Which comes from the Lord=who
Is the Spirit”
2
Corinthians 3:18
That is right=MY FRIENDS
Every single one of us
Man or woman=have been made in
THE IMAGE OF GOD=that means
There is SOME GOODNESS=in each of us
And we are CALLED=
TO A HIGHER STANDARD
“And those he predestined=
HE ALSO CALLED=those he CALLED
He also justified=those he justified
He also glorified”
Romans
8:30
My dear friends=we have
ALL FAILED GOD
In our lives=at one time=or another
But we have JESUS’ IMAGE=in us
And that means=we are Called
TO A HIGHER STANDARD
Let us PRAY=for each other
That more of us=START LIVING
That way
In Jesus’ name=and in the name=of our ALWAYS GOOD=Holy
Father God!
Robert P. Wallman
5-17-2023
Ps INSPIRED=by
an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Gail Goleas
