Living Right
Wednesday July 23, 2014
Be careful to obey all my commands, so that all will go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and pleasing to the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 12:28 NLT)
When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour and do what is good and pleasing in the sight of the Lord we can be assured that we are His children and that He will care for us. Any other way of living is in conflict with God’s purposes for life and ultimately not satisfying. We are free to choose the way we live but God, who created us, has unfailing love for His creation and offers us freedom to live life to the full. We are instructed by His word to choose that which is good for us. Just because something is technically legal doesn’t mean that it’s spiritually appropriate. If I went around doing whatever I thought I could get by with, I’d be a slave to my whims. (1 Corinthians 6:12 MSG)
When we are seeking to live a lifestyle of love and freedom, we consider how our actions impact the lives of others. We willingly let go of those things that might harm them or cause them to stumble. We choose to inconvenience ourselves if it makes the road to love and freedom easier for others. Jesus inconvenienced Himself by setting aside those privileges that would clearly have proven that He was God. He came to earth and lived and died as a servant to us, freely choosing even death on a cross. He did this because of the joy He knew He would experience together with us, in perfect freedom, in the Kingdom of Heaven. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross. (Philippians 2:5-8 NLT)
Any desire to live right will seek to have the same attitude as Jesus. He came and lived and died so that we could have eternal life. He was rejected that we could be accepted. The purpose of God is that we have a right relationship with Him and also a healthy relationship with our neighbours.
He (Jesus) answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Luke 10:27 NIV)
Let’s live and love right today and every day.
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