Psalm 25:12 Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.
Who are the people who are willing to listen and learn from God’s Word?
Those who are willing to humble themselves before God and show they fear the Lord – not fear as in afraid but fear as in uttermost respect!
When we show God the respect due, we will see changes in our lives as we move forward with God in everything!
Psalm 85:10 Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
What a wonderful way of describing love and faithfulness – without these two attributes, we are not going to get very far in life...
But with them, we will be able to go a little further, encourage others a little more and stay safer with others!
God wants us to love the people around us like we love ourselves.
God wants us to share the righteousness and peace we get from God with those around us!
Amos 7:14 Amos answered Amaziah, ‘I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.
Amos was looked at as being a prophet by Amaziah the priest, but he was not saying nice things so was rejected by the priests!
God chooses who He wants to be the prophets or missionaries He wants in the places He wants them to be.
As long as we listen to God and are faithful in telling people what God teaches us, then we too are doing God’s will in our lives.
Matthew 7:1 Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
Are you going to blame someone when things go wrong? What if they did something by mistake – because they are just human like you!
God wants us to be different so people will question themselves rather than having to be faced with judgment from others!
Judgement does not help anyone to break free of their sinful ways – it traps them in those ways.