Tuesday, 15 December 2015

Do good - do right

And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, - Deuteronomy 6.18

We are saved by faith. It is the gift of God. It is His work. He has delivered us just as surely as He delivered Israel. There is more to do than actually just remember what God has done. The best way to show that we remember what God has done is to do things to reflect it.

Do what is right in the sight of the Lord
Do what is good in the sight of the Lord.

Because it is God who did the delivering we show our love and gratitude to Him by doing right and by doing what is good. We could never be good and right enough to deliver ourselves, so our good works are not for deliverance. Our good works follow in reaction to God’s deliverance.


We need to be sure not to forget God once we have been delivered. He must always be first and foremost in our lives. We prove that we have not forgotten Him by doing the right thing and by doing what is good. 

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