A GODLY WAY OF LIVING=Not me First!
We are CHALLENGED at every TURN=Through this life=Health
difficulties=
Financial Challenges=and RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS=But Isaiah=THE
POET=
Tells us to=LIVE A GODLY WAY OF LIVING!=Not a ME FIRST=Kind
of way=”Put AWAY
Your misdeeds=From before my eyes=Cease doing evil=LEARN TO
DO GOOD=
Make JUSTICE your aim=Redress the wronged=Hear the orphans
pleas=DEFEND
The widows” Isaiah
1:16-17
LIVE IN A GODLY WAY!=NOT in a selfish me FIRST=Kind of way!
WE live in a COUNTRY=and in a WORLD=Where we are
ENCOURAGED=To take CARE=
Of our own needs first=WE isolate OURSELVE with telephones and ALL kinds of
Electronics=and IGNORE pleas for HELP=EVEN from family and friends=But we
need
To OPEN UP our HEARTS and eyes=and hear=GOD’S MESSAGES OF
LOVE=God’s messages
OF Goodness=and His messages OF FORGIVENESS=LIVE IN A GODLY
WAY!=NOT in a
ME FIRST KIND OF WAY!=Not in a worldly way!
“In fact=Everyone who wants to live=A GOLDLY LIFE=In Christ
Jesus=Will be persecuted=
While evildoers= and impostors=Will go from bad to
worse=Deceiving and being
Deceived”
2 Timothy 3:12
“Since everything will be DESTROYED=in this way=What kind of
people Ought you be?
You ought to LIVE holy and GODLY LIVES”
2 Peter 3:11
And so my Dear BROTHERS and SISTERS=LOVE GODLY LIVES!=Not me
FIRST LIVES=LISTEN
To the MESSAGES of the FATHER=and to His Son Jesus Christ=PRAY
for others!=Take some
TIME alone by yourself=Alone with God=and read some
SCRIPTURES!=Keep your eyes=and
YOUR HEARTS OPEN!=Listen=Really listen=WHEN God and others
speak==Listen=and When Others need Help=RESPOND!
“For physical training=Is of some value==BUT GODLINESS has
Value=For all things=Holding
PROMISE for BOTH the present life=and the LIFE TO COME” 1
Timothy 4:8
“For GODLINESS with Contentment=is great gain=For we BROUGHT
Nothing=Into the
World=and we can take NOTHING OUT OF IT”
1 Timothy 6:6
“But you=MAN OF GOD=Flee from all this=and pursue
righteousness=GODLINESS=faith=
Love=endurance and gentleness”
1 Timothy 6:11
We NEED to listen=to the LORD=and bet on=the WORD of God=the
WORD OF LIFE=We have to
Keep our HEART AND EYES open=and HELP OTHERS when we
can=That is the=GODLY WAY=
To LIVE=and it is the LORD’S WAY!=THE Almighty Father’s Way=TUNE
OUT the noise and all
The pollution of this world=LIVE A GODLY WAY OF LIVING=Not a
me first WAY!
“In spite of this=You
did NOT TRUST=In the Lord your God=Who went ahead of you=On
The journey=In fire by night=and in a Cloud by day=To search
out PLACES=for you to camp=
And to Show you=THE
WAY you should go”
Deuteronomy 1:32-33
“Jesus answered’=’I AM THE WAY=and the Truth=and the Life=No
one Comes to the Father=Except through me”
John
14:6
CHOOSE to live in LOVE=Choose to Live=In UNITY and in Peace=Choose
to LIVE in
Forgiveness and KINDNESS Those are GODLY WAYS!=and is=A
GODLY WAY OF LIVING!=
Not a me first KIND OF WAY!
In Jesus’ name=and in the NAME of our Forever Living=Forever
Loving=EVER GODLY=Ever
Our Holy Father God!
Robert P. Wallman
7-12-2026
Ps INSPIRED by
an article IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Melanie Rigney
