Commandment Living

The Gift of Faith
Tests of Faith

Resurrection Faith

Deuteronomy 6:1-9  The Message

6 ^1-2 This is the commandment, the rules and regulations, that God, your God, commanded me to teach you to live out in the land you’re about to cross into to possess. This is so that you’ll live in deep reverence before God lifelong, observing all his rules and regulations that I’m commanding you, you and your children and your grandchildren, living good long lives.

³ Listen obediently, Israel. Do what you’re told so that you’ll have a good life, a life of abundance and bounty, just as God promised, in a land abounding in milk and honey.
⁴ Attention, Israel!
God, our God! God the one and only!
⁵ Love God, your God, with your whole heart: love him with all that’s in you, love him with all you’ve got!

^6-9 Write these commandments that I’ve given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates.

For Reflection 

A spiritual life is the driving force which underlies all you are and do that is good.  For the most part, that spiritual life is characterized by whom or what you give your allegiance.  For me that is God to whom I give my allegiance.  I am, in so far as I am humanly able, committed to following the will of God as evidenced in the Christ Event.  

 

As we approach Easter, my focus is not so much on the death of Christ, but rather, His resurrection.  In my imperfection God through Christ completes me.  My excursions into common culture, my deviations from the narrow path, nor my lapses of tongue are held against me.  Instead, I am unconditionally loved, offered redemption, welcomed back into God's household as though I have never left, and restored to the human being God intends me to be.  This is my resurrection Faith.

Pray

that you will find freedom in your allegiance to God.  Pray for the opportunity to serve God.  Give thanks to the giver of life, indeed, life everlasting.  Sing Hallelujah!  Christ has conquered sin!