FAITH CAPSULE: Are you righteous or are you wicked?
Psalm 139
Fear God to obey Him. Obedience is serving God. Serving God is not the evidence of attending church, being a church member for thousand years or leaving in church 24hours. Serve God with fear! Psalm 2:11 said it all, “Serve the Lord with fear…”
Serving God right is the evidence of being righteous before God. Also, serving God wrong is the evidence of being wicked before God. It is certain that God cannot be deceived. How are you serving God? We are to ask individual this question: Am I serving God right or serving Him being wicked?
David always search his service before God to re-address himself for doing what is right before God:
Psalm 77:6, “I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.”
Psalm 139:1, “O Lord, You have searched me and known me.”
Psalm 139:23, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties.”
Word of God demands from all man to be righteous before God, doing right at all times. Also, all man should restrain self from serving God, doing wrong but wicked before God.
Isaiah 3:10-11 records God’s mind as regard to how individual serve God:
“Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, For they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, For the reward of his hands shall be given him.”
In living life, how a man is serving God is what a man is sowing to reap. One that sows what is well will reap fruit that is well and satisfactory. If one’s serving God is wrong but wicked before God, the result of such serving will deliver woe and ill to wicked ones.
Who are you before God? How are you serving God?
Are you righteous or are you wicked?
Interestingly, a simple answer that will settle all man as regard to how one is serving God is not hidden but in the word of God.
The book of Jeremiah 12:1-2 recorded, “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.”
One that is wicked cannot possibly be righteous one before God.
The wicked ones are quick to quote the word of God, but the word of God is far from mind with no fear of God. One with the mind of God’s word answers as righteous ones with the fear of God.
The judgment of God for our way of serving Him is in Isaiah 3:10-11 as stated above.
Fear God by knowing His word to be doing His word, without knowing God to fear God it is not possible to serve Him for Him to be pleased with us.
From today, watch it, there is a judgment for how we serve Him!
Prayer for today: Ask from God that you want to serve Him right to be righteous before Him.