Fear the Lord and Live Rightly

Our Love for God

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

Deuteronomy 6:20-25 The Message

20-24 The next time your child asks you, “What do these requirements and regulations and rules that God, our God, has commanded mean?” tell your child, “We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and God powerfully intervened and got us out of that country. We stood there and watched as God delivered miracle-signs, great wonders, and evil-visitations on Egypt, on Pharaoh and his household. He pulled us out of there so he could bring us here and give us the land he so solemnly promised to our ancestors. That’s why God commanded us to follow all these rules so that we would live reverently before God, our God, as he gives us this good life, keeping us alive for a long time to come.
25 “It will be a set-right and put-together life for us if we make sure that we do this entire commandment in the Presence of God, our God, just as he commanded us to do.”

For Reflection

What do you tell yourself when you collide with a commandment? The notion of rules regulates a society.  Without them, there is chaos, everyone doing as he or she pleases without regard for anyone else but themselves. The networks established for safety, security and the fulfillment of the promise of humanity as God has intended would become impossible to sustain. Humanity would disappear. It would self-destruct.

And yet, sometimes the rules are in conflict. Just making more rules increases the potential for confusion.  That is when only one rule matters. The first rule of justice is love.

Pray

Pray so that you can live reverently with confidence in the Lord.

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