Friday, June 18, 2010

Right?

The best solution in the world unapplied still won’t work. Most problems persist not for lack of information but application. We know what to do because God’s Word is true, and we can do what we know for where He leads He empowers to go. It’s not some great big mystery that we can’t understand nor is it beyond our God given ability. Simply said it’s love God and love people and God didn’t tell you to do something that you can’t do. And until you do you will have problems because you’re not living right. People try to do all kinds of stuff to fix themselves up but it’s like painting a house without a foundation. You may be able to cover it up for a bit but the storms of life will soon reveal what’s underneath. The way of the world is to criticize and complain and then sit around and wonder why they have such woe. Whining is obviously not working and when no one is working things only get worse. If you want to feel right and for things to go right you will first have to do right. And what’s right – Love. It’s the first and greatest commandment and the commandment itself contains the power and is the source of the solution.

Deut 30:11-14
11 "For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off. 12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' 14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
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Matt 7:24-27
24 "Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

26 "But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."
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James 1:22-25
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
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James 2:8-9
8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;
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Deut 30:19-20
19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; 20 that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days…
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