JMD Devotional 187 Micah 6:11 What Does the Lord Require?
Can I be pure [Myself, and acquit the man] with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?
People always want God to make an exception for them, to 'wink' at their sin while others are judged. But what kind of Judge would do that? Only a corrupt one. Wrong-doing has consequences. God is righteous, and wrath will come for those who ignore the salvation that He has made so accessible.
Vs 12-15 For [the city's] rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants have spoken lies and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths. Therefore I have also smitten you with a deadly wound and made you sick, laying you desolate, waste, and deserted because of your sins. You shall eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness and hunger shall remain in you; you shall carry away [goods and those you love] but fail to save them, and those you do deliver I will give to the sword. You shall sow but not reap; you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil, and [you shall extract juice from] the grapes but not drink the wine.
God's grace provides for our salvation; that in no way is license for sin; but our freedom is the power and the responsibility to do what is right.
Vs 8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?
Dear God,
Draw me into Your Holiness, seat me within just company. Teach me Your ways that I may internalize mercy, truth and righteousness in every area of my life. Make me intolerant of sin but have pity on the sinner. May people have no doubt of where I stand.
Amen
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People always want God to make an exception for them, to 'wink' at their sin while others are judged. But what kind of Judge would do that? Only a corrupt one. Wrong-doing has consequences. God is righteous, and wrath will come for those who ignore the salvation that He has made so accessible.
Vs 12-15 For [the city's] rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants have spoken lies and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths. Therefore I have also smitten you with a deadly wound and made you sick, laying you desolate, waste, and deserted because of your sins. You shall eat but not be satisfied, and your emptiness and hunger shall remain in you; you shall carry away [goods and those you love] but fail to save them, and those you do deliver I will give to the sword. You shall sow but not reap; you shall tread olives but not anoint yourselves with oil, and [you shall extract juice from] the grapes but not drink the wine.
God's grace provides for our salvation; that in no way is license for sin; but our freedom is the power and the responsibility to do what is right.
Vs 8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?
Dear God,
Draw me into Your Holiness, seat me within just company. Teach me Your ways that I may internalize mercy, truth and righteousness in every area of my life. Make me intolerant of sin but have pity on the sinner. May people have no doubt of where I stand.
Amen
All (but*) quotes are from The Amplified Bible, published by
the Lockman Foundation. (AMP)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
*New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
**Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. (Eugene Peterson's easy-to-read, contemporary Scripture translation)
If you know of someone who would like to subscribe to
my daily devotional, please forward.
jamesdinsmore_32907@yahoo.com
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http://SaintJamesPoetry.blogspot.com
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http://jamesezadventures.blogspot.com/
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