Ecclesiastes 12:13
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Psalm 119:165
Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
The Right Thing at the Right Time
Moses met with God, often in dramatic fashion; the Word tells us that “the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush’” (Exodus 3:2). At that time God called Moses to lead the children of Israel out of the bondage of Egypt and he had to upend his life to follow the leading of the Lord. “So Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, ‘Please let me go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt’ … And Jethro said to Moses, ‘Go in peace’” (Exodus 4:18-19).
Luke 11:28
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
Jeremiah 7:23
But this command I gave them: “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.”
Philippians 4:9
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Rage Against the Machine…Or Not
Our God calls us to submit to those in power over us, but when is it okay to rebel against authority?
In his book A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond reminisced about how the most difficult aspect of his job as a zookeeper was often the people at the zoo, not the animals. He told the story of an elderly visitor who, in his words, “created more bedlam than any single visitor in the zoo’s history.”
Perfected by Love
Love, fear, obedience — when it comes to walking with God, they are inseparable because you cannot practice one without the other two.
Faith That Steps Out
“A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return” (Luke 19:12).
Jesus tells the parable of a nobleman who entrusted some of his servants with equal amounts of money to manage while he was away on a trip. Upon his return, the master asked for an accounting from the servants to evaluate how faithful each had been in his assignment.