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Jeremiah
23:21-22 NKJV
(21)
" I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have
not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
(22) But
if they had stood in My counsel,
And had
caused My people to hear My words,
Then
they would have turned them from their evil way
And from
the evil of their doings.
Many
people have strong beliefs, but are they right? Are they in harmony with God's
will?
Many people hold onto beliefs, those handed down by parents. But truly a belief must not only be strong, but it must also be right and according to God's purpose and plan. In truth our living out God's word will give proof and prove to that which is right in the process of right living!
We are taught that righteous actions will produce godly fruit.
This is why Jesus says, "You will know them by their fruits" (Matthew
7:16).
Matthew 7:16 Amplified Bible 16 You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit [worthy of admiration], but the sickly (decaying, worthless) tree bears bad (worthless) fruit. 18 A good (healthy) tree cannot bear bad (worthless) fruit, nor can a bad (diseased) tree bear excellent fruit [worthy of admiration].
So too, within our lives and who follow truly after the Lord will produce fruits. In that life it is a person's life that will show what a person believes,
producing in him a resolution that his actions are God-ordered and he dare not
turn aside or change them.
Psalm 40:4 Amplified Bible 4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who makes the Lord his refuge and trust; and turns not to the proud or to the followers of false gods.
Psalm 125:4-5 Amplified Bible 4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are right [with You and all people] in their hearts. 5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways [of indifference to God], the Lord will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!
Do our lives really reflect what we believe? And is the truth really found in God? Is our faith set in Him or in something else?
For whatever our walk today, you and I must be those who desire truth. And to have that truth will be in God. For prayer is set for communication and to keep that focus that God is our answer, that answer will come through Him and show us the way to walk.
In truth then, are we really following His example of prayer as we saw Jesus go up the mountain to pray? Do we follow that path to the quiet to hear Him with our heart?
If truly in right standing with Him, and knowing His heart is to bless those who follow Him closely, then we should know He wants the good for us!
Titus 3:4-8 Amplified Bible 4 But when the goodness and
loving-kindness of God our Savior to man [as man] appeared, 5 He saved us, not
because of any works of righteousness that we had one, but because of His own
pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing bath of the new birth (regeneration) and
renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 Which He poured out [so] richly upon us through
Jesus Christ our Savior. 7 [And he did it in order] that we might be justified
by His grace (by His favor, wholly undeserved), [ that we might be acknowledge
and counted as conformed to the divine will in purpose, thought and action], And that we might become heirs of eternal life
according to [our hope].
8 This
message is most trustworthy, and concerning these things I want you to insist
steadfastly, so that those who have believed in (trusted in, relied on,) God
may be careful to apply themselves to honorable occupations and to doing good,
for such themselves are [not only]
excellent and right [in themselves,] but [they] are good and profitable for the
people.
As the woman or man of God, then our purpose in God and by God is that our thinking on that purpose be of and in His divine thought and not of my belief system of other things. Designated by God for a purposeful life, then I must come to His ways of doing and thinking and not my own.
So is our hope found in God. Have I truly relied on God and His ways for my life?
We have that righteous status in Jesus Christ! That we could be regenerated into a new life of rebirth to become what God purposed for you and for me. Truly the Lord is for us. Truly He sent His best for us and in that we have a good hope to come across that victory line, not behind the 8-ball but out in that glorious life that is of the blessed, the fortunate, that which is envied by those who do not know Him and live as He desires.
Matthew 13:43 Amplified Bible 43 Then will the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God) shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears [to hear] be listening, and let him consider and perceive and understand by hearing.
May we harmonize with God our Father. May our lips produce those words of righteousness that is from the New Covenant to shine forth as the sun shines! Walk out in harmony, walk in the fullness of that dignity and reality of the Father's own righteousness. For truly we are born-again, we are born into RIGHTEOUSNESS by and of the Father Himself. Amen!
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