Walking His Call

How do we show God that we love Him - truly love Him?  We obey Him when He speaks to us - we obey His Word. Now, before we go further...This is not a legalistic form of obedience.  Not like "obeying the law of the land", so we won't get in thrown into prison.  Our obedience should be a natural out-flow of our love for Him.  We love Him because He first loved us. In order to be obedient we have to listen to Him.  Listening requires us to know His voice.  The Word says, "My sheep hear my voice and they know me and follow (obey) me."  His kids do what He tells them to do. Obedience - to obey - is NOT an acceptable word these days.  Its almost always seen by the world today as a "four letter word".  Even in the context of insisting on obedience from our children, it is seen as a bad word.  If I had a dollar for every time I was looked at like I'd sprouted another head for using it, I'd have a tidy nest egg set aside.  We, as a people,  do not

“Do not judge others, and you will not be judged.     For you will be treated as you treat others.   The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be judged.     And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?     How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye?     Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye." (Matthew 7: 1-5) Zowie!!! Those who truly wanted Jesus were always received with open arms; accepted where they were, with the admonition (Def:  gentle or friendly reproof)  to "go and sin no more".   Their sins were freely and readily forgiven (not laid out for all to see).  The time we are told about, in scripture, of the woman brought to Jesus, who had been "caught in the act of adultery" (just the woman was brought

I was reading in the book of Leviticus a couple of days ago, which takes discipline because I've never found that book to be particularly fascinating. I actually had to mentally prepared myself to read it by saying, "all of His Word is profitable for teaching...all of His Word is inspired...etc".  So I began to read...I got through chapter one and said, "Ok, God I read the first chapter.  I'll read another one tomorrow (or another day)."  But His sweet Spirit pulled me back to it (UGH!)...so I starting reading chapter two.  Now, I've read this book a few times before (hence the bad attitude about reading it again), but this time something leapt off the page at me... Leviticus 2:13 " You  shall season all your grain offerings with salt . You shall not let the  salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt ." "The salt of the covenant..."  What?  Salt is a big