When you live in
righteousness you will naturally be a loving person. You cannot be right with God and not inherit
His love nature. No matter how well you
may be able to live righteously by man’s standards, if you are not loving, you
are not living righteously by God’s standards.
Hosea spoke to a
people who based their righteousness on how well they were able to live by
God’s law. God made it very clear what
they must do in order to be right with Him.
What ended up happening was that when they lived by the law they failed
to love one another and legalism without love creates a hard heart. Hosea’s admonition was for them to plow up
the hardness of their hearts. Obedience
to God must be done for the right reason.
What we do must flow from hearts of love, not duty.
If
you are not motivated by love for the Lord in what you do, now is the time to
do something about it. Continuing on
without love makes the heart hard towards God.
No matter how much good you are doing, if love is not behind it, you do
it in vain. God knows your heart and
whether or not your motivation in doing what is right is love and He will hold
you accountable for your motivation. If
you want to be sure your heart is right with God, take a bath in His love. He will shower you in His righteousness and
all will be well with your soul.
Loving
God overshadows everything we do. It
affects not only our standing with God, it affects our relationships with
others. We cannot love God without
loving people. We cannot live
righteously with uncaring souls.
Now
is the time to examine your soul. Now is
the time to seek the Lord. Now is the
time to make sure that loving God is the driving force in your life. Now is the time to live righteously before
God. Tomorrow may never come and if you
don’t do it now, it may be too late.
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