Return to a Just God

God's Prophets Demand Justice
God' Prophets Demand Justice

Advocates of Justice for All


Return to a Just God

Matthew 7:7-14  The Message

^7-11 “Don’t bargain with God. Be direct. Ask for what you need. This isn’t a cat-and-mouse, hide-and-seek game we’re in. If your child asks for bread, do you trick him with sawdust? If he asks for fish, do you scare him with a live snake on his plate? As bad as you are, you wouldn’t think of such a thing. You’re at least decent to your own children. So don’t you think the God who conceived you in love will be even better?
¹² “Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get.

Being and Doing

^13-14 “Don’t look for shortcuts to God. The market is flooded with surefire, easygoing formulas for a successful life that can be practiced in your spare time. Don’t fall for that stuff, even though crowds of people do. The way to life—to God!—is vigorous and requires total attention.

For Reflection 

Live your life as though what you believe is the motive for what you do.  It is easy to say I have faith in God.  It is easy to love the Lord.  It is easy to follow your religious rituals.  What is not so easy is to live your life as though the lives of all others depended upon it.  Living a righteous life is vigorous and requires total attention.

Pray

that the rigors of life stimulate you into righteousness.