FAITH CAPSULE: Giving self to hear and do the word is God’s expectation from man.

Exodus 20:1-21

All that the Lord God asks from us is to obey His word. God does not ask for more or less, but complete obedience. He has set His standard, and it will not be lowered or excused under no circumstances. Jesus, through His ministry, He repeatedly emphasized on hearing and obeying the word of God. Once, He was being sought by His mother and brothers but he could not be approached because of the crowd. The Bible recorded His response, “But He answered and said to them, ‘My mother and My brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.’” (Luke 8:21) Jesus said “who hear the word of God and do it” If there was any way to emphasize on obeying the word of God, Jesus has presented it repeatedly. Despite that, obeying which is to hear and do the word of God has been reduced to the minimum, and obeying His words continue to be the least among man that confesses Christ as Lord and savior.
Are you one that has subjected yourself to the dictates of your heart–which is an act of wickedness? God is a merciful God and His sentencing against evil work is not speedily executed (Ecclesiastes 8:11).
Taking the privilege of prolonged sentencing against evil is taking the risk of heading into eternal damnation. God will move and He will not fail to respond just as He did not look over the acts of disobedience of the children of Israel. God once said to the children of Israel in Jeremiah 2:19, “Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the LORD of hosts.” What the children of Israel did that led them into captivity is what the church today is doing today. There is only one way of serving God in deed and in truth: obey His word (give hear to the word of God and do it).
God gave the Ten Commandments to man and all ten but not one is to be dutifully complied with. Every time we draw out our own way of obeying His commandment, it ends up being disobedient to the commandments of God. You can take or add to the commands of God in your own way. Man can color God’s commands at self-will and still be in riches. However, the truth is, if you have fallen short in obeying it all, His timing will catch up with you. The Kingdom life is guided by God’s command, not man’s command or the dictates of man’s heart.

Prayer for today: Today, give thanks to God for Jesus Christ our Lord and savior; the word of God for our salvation.