DOING THE WILL
OF THE FATHER
Growing up
WERE you close
To your dad
Did you TRY
To obey
What he told you
To do
Jesus was
Jesus did
And WHEN he was praying
To him
In the garden of Gethsemane
With his apostles and friends
All asleep
He still had
THE PRESENCE OF MIND
And obedience to say
“MY Father
IF it is possible
May this cup
Be taken away from me
Yet NOT
As I will
But as you will” Matthew 26:39
So ALWAYS
Do the WILL
Of your own father and mother-
And pay attention
To what and who
Your earthly brothers and sisters are
But also REMEMBER
Who your HEAVENLY relatives are:
“For WHOEVER
DOES the will
Of my heavenly Father
IS my brother, sister, and mother” Matthew 12:50
SO-of course-I LOVE-my earthly sisters
And ALL my earthly relatives
BUT I also LOVE
ALL of you
My heavenly brothers and sisters
In Christ
YOU KNOW-who you are-
For I make NO SECRET of it
I LOVE
ALL of you dearly too
Jesus was ALWAYS MOTIVATED
By doing his FATHER'S WILL
ALL the way
To the point
Of his death
I too
Like my HERO-Jesus
Always try to do
The will
Of my HEAVENLY FATHER
What a great motivating factor
“ALL a person's ways
SEEM pure to them
But motives
Are WEIGHED by the Lord” Proverbs 16:2
DOING the WILL
Of the Lord
And the things of today
Are very DIFFERENT
Than they were
2000 years ago
So things today
May call for different actions
But SOME THINGS are FOR SURE:
WE can't go wrong
By loving THE GOD OF LOVE
We can't go wrong
By loving others
And we can't go wrong
By being KIND AND FORGIVING OTHERS
We know for certain
That doing these things
Are certainly:
“DOING THE WILL OF GOD”
To do
The WILL OF GOD THE FATHER
Is acknowledging God
As our creator
ACCEPTING the teachings
Of Jesus
And LIVING our lives
According to God's teachings
MAY we ALL
LOVE our earthly family
LOVE OUR heavenly family
And do
THE WILL OF GOD
THEN we will know
We are BUILDING
BOTH GOD'S earthly
And heavenly kingdoms
Robert P. Wallman
7-20-15 and 6-25-026
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Father James McKarns
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