REMAING IN=GOD'S AND JESUS' LOVE

 

REMAINING IN=GOD’S AND JESUS’ LOVE

 

Today=Jesus tells us

That he has LOVED ALL of us=

Just the SAME WAY=The Father

HIS very own Father=has loved him

 

And he tells us=TO REMAIN

In that love=

BY LOVING ONE ANOTHER

REMAINING IN=

GOD’S AND JESUS’ LOVE

 

“IF you keep my commandments=

You will=REMAIN IN MY LOVE…….”                                                                                 John 15:10

 

We all KNOW THEM=

From Matthew=what

The TWO GREATEST commandments are

 

LOVE GOD=above all else

And LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR=as ourself

UNFORTUNATELY=many of us

Seem to NOT know them=much less

DO THEM

 

We live in a

ME-FIRST=selfish world=

We have to get back=to

LIVING that love=to PRACTICING HUMILITY

By putting God and others

ABOVE=our very own selfish interests

 

REMAINING IN=GOD’S AND JESUS’ LOVE

Practicing humility=by

Putting others first

 

“HE GUIDES THE HUMBLE=

In what is right=and

Teaches them his way”                                                                                                         Psalm 25:9

 

“These are the ones

I look on=with favor

 

THOSE WHO ARE HUMBLE=

And contrite in spirit=and who tremble

At my word”                                                                                                                            Isaiah 66:2

 

Jesus is CLEAR=

In letting us KNOW=

HOW we are to=LOVE ONE ANOTHER

 

It is=by

Laying our lives down

For OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

We can do that

By DYING for someone else=LIKE JESUS DID

 

Or we CAN do that

BY LIVING our lives=THROUGH

The GIVING of our lives

 

Like the SAINTS do=Like missionaries

Priests=nuns=ministers=and like medical people

Police men and women=and service people

 

PRACTICE HUMILITY=REMAIN IN

GOD’S AND JESUS’ LOVE=live for others

 

“If you=REMAIN IN ME

And my words=REMAIN in you

Ask whatever you wish=and it

Will be done for you”                                                                                                          John 15:7

 

“Let no debt=REMAIN OUTSTANDING

Except the continuing debt=

To love one another=for

Whoever loves others=has fulfilled the law”                                                                    Romans 13:8

 

Jesus’ love=in our world

IS ALIVE=every time

WE LOVE ONE ANOTHER=every time

We put=GOD’S LOVE for another

Above our own interests

 

We love God=we HONOR God

And we=REMAIN IN GOD’S LOVE

By loving one another

ABOVE all else

 

In Jesus’ name=and in the name=of our FOREVER LIVING=forever loving=and REMAINING

Holy Father God!

 

Robert P. Wallman

5-01-2023

 

 

Ps        INSPIRED=by an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Deborah A. Meister