Do What Is Right and Good

Our Love for God

God Commands Our Love, Respect, and Obedience:
Love and Devotion

Deuteronomy 6:16-19 The Message

13-19 Deeply respect God, your God. Serve and worship him exclusively. Back up your promises with his name only. Don’t fool around with other gods, the gods of your neighbors, because God, your God, who is alive among you is a jealous God. Don’t provoke him, igniting his hot anger that would burn you right off the face of the Earth. Don’t push God, your God, to the wall as you did that day at Massah, the Testing-Place. Carefully keep the commands of God, your God, all the requirements and regulations he gave you. Do what is right; do what is good in God’s sight so you’ll live a good life and be able to march in and take this pleasant land that God so solemnly promised through your ancestors, throwing out your enemies left and right—exactly as God said.

For Reflection

Whatever happened to the concept of the "greater good?" Have we become so self-absorbed that "We" bears less importance than "I?" What happens when we are seduced into doing the wrong, hurtful things and claim the false righteousness in the name of God? How long can we provoke God?  Remember that God is love, not hate. 

Pray

Pray so that you will be able to judge what is right and good in the eyes of God.  

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