CHOOSE TO BE=GOD'S FIRST

 

 

 

 

CHOOSE TO BE=GOD’S FIRST

(A SERVANT OF GOD)

 

As we=LIVE OUR LIVES=it seems we are

Pulled in two directions=ONE is in the WAYS

Of our Holy Father God=and Jesus

Love=forgiveness=KINDNESS=and LIVING THE BEATITUDES

 

The other way=IS the ways=of the WORLD=If we

CHOOSE the ways of the world=we are PRIORITIZING

Money and materialism=maybe ourselves=and SELFISHNESS

Or maybe drugs=alcoholism=and moral permissiveness=WE NEED

 

To CHOOSE GOD FIRST=to BELONG to God for=”NO ONE

Can serve two masters”                                                                                                    Matthew 6:24

 

Today=we HONOR TWO MEN=who literally CHOSE

To lose their heads=Rather than approve of an IMMORAL=

Illicit King=a corrupt King=King Henry VIIITH=and his wife

And Boleyn=and their children=as righteous heirs

 

They CHOSE GOD=they chose RIGHT over the KING=and

They were MARTYRED for it=Their names were Saint John Fisher=

And Thomas More

 

We will=PROBABLY=never lose our lives=for the CHOICE

WE MAKE=in this world=but we NEED TO CONTINUE to make=

CHOICES of=PUTTING GOD FIRST=over money and materialism=

And over our own SELFISH INTERESTS

 

CHOOSE TO BE=GOD’S FIRST=Choose to be=A SERVANT

OF GOD

 

“Then Eli realized=that the Lord=was calling the boy=So Eli

Told Samuel’=’Go and lie down=and if he calls you again=say=

 

‘Speak Lord=FOR YOUR SERVANT is listening’=so Samuel

Went and lay down=in his place”                                                                                                  1 Samuel:3:8-9

 

“Not so with you=Instead whoever wants to be great=among you

Must be YOUR SERVANT”                                                                                                                   Matthew 20:26

 

“……..Rather=he made himself nothing=by taking

The very nature=OF A SERVANT=being made in human likeness”                                 Philippians 2:7

 

Dear Lord=we PRAY=that we always=CHOOSE TO SERVE YOU=

And your Holy Father God FIRST=may we be SLAVES to you=and

BE YOUR SERVANT=a servant of our God=and Jesus=HIS SON

And to THE CHURCH=of the Lord

 

May we CHOOSE=to PUT GOD FIRST Like Saints John Fisher and

Thomas More=and all the SAINTS of this world=who CHOOSE GOD

OVER the ways of this world

 

Dear Lord=when we are TEMPTED=by other masters=like

Political ideologies=like finances=like our careers=may we

CONTINUE to CHOOSE God first=and be YOUR SERVANTS

 

“I AM THE FIRST=and I am the last=apart from me

There is no God”                                                                                                                                 Isaiah 44:6

 

“BUT SEEK FIRST=his Kingdom=and his righteousness=and

All these things=will be given to you=as well”                                                                           Matthew 6:33

 

Dear Lord=like the SAINTS=of this world=we pray for

THE STRENGTH=to resist temptation=and always CHOOSE

TO BE=GOD’S FIRST=and a SERVANT of the Lord

 

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

FOREVER TRUE=HOLY FATHER GOD!

 

Robert P. Wallman

6-21-2024

 

 

Ps      INSPIRED=by an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Greg Erlandson