Do What is Good and Live (Ezekiel 18:21-28/Psalm 130/Matthew 5:20-26)

"If a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statues and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live;he shall not die" Ezekiel 18:21

God is not wicked that He will desire the death of a sinner, instead, he is always reaching out to the one who has fallen into sin to come out of his or her sinful way of life and become a new person in Christ.

This simply shows us that God is holy and He desires that we who follow Him as His disciples must be holy also. If we must do the things that will be acceptable before the Lord it must be good things and not evil.

Sin puts us in a position as enemies of Christ and as such we will not be able to have life in Him except we repent of our sins and turn away from our evil ways.

If we intend to live for Christ, we must do good always. We must strive to live a righteous life, because the way of the Lord is just. We must do good not to please anyone or seek favour, but to glorify the Lord. When we do what we are supposed to do and in a manner that will bring glory to the name of the Lord, God will be happy and He will bless us.

We see how Jesus shows us in the gospel reading how we should live our lives. Our righteousness must exceed that of the Pharisees. This means that in obeying the law we must go beyond the letter to finding out the spirit of the law then keeping it.

Thou shall not kill involves something much more than simply killing someone. It takes into consideration, bitterness, anger, humiliation and insults e.t.c Therefore, if one truly seeks after righteousness, he or she must strive not to do what will hurt another person in words or deeds.

The Lord will happy that our differences and quarrels are resolved before we approach the altar to give thanks and offer sacrifices. When this is not the case, we are actually giving room for the evil one to take control of our lives.

The Lord loves good and abhors evil. we must also love good and detest evil if we intend to live and please Him. When we sin, we die, but when we do good, we live. We will make the choice of what we want and if we choose life, then we must do good always and stay away from evil. We must let go of our sinful past and accept the new life we have in Christ

Reconciliation is very important if we must make heaven at the last day. Reconcile with God and reconcile with your Neighbour and you will be ready to do the good that will merit you eternal life in His kingdom.

Let Us Pray: Lord Jesus Christ, help me to turn away from my evil ways so that I will have life in you  May I desire good always more than evil and with your help may I reconcile with my neighbours. Amen

Popular posts from this blog

Proclaim What You Have Witnessed!(Acts 4:13-21, Psalm 118, Mark 16:9-15 )

Image
In the Gospel reading of today, we read the evangelist listing some persons to whom Jesus had  appeared to after his ressurection. We hear Jesus chastise his apostles for not believing even by the testimonies of those who had seen Him. Now in the Gospel reading we hear the two apostles refusing to stop witnessing. They too had experienced the resurrected Christ and his first gift of the Holy Spirit and now have become witnesses themselves. Today, the reading brings before our minds the call to believe and to be witnesses of the resurrection. It is not proper that those who are witnesses of the living Christ, in he Church, the sacraments and  the word of God alive in our hearts, refuse to bear witness to the risen Jesus by the way we live ourlives. It is very sad that many times ourlives show that we do not believe Jesus is alive and is watching our every action and thought. We need to brace up and live the new life which we share in he ressurection through baptism. Let the
Read more

Let The Resurrection Witnessing Begin (Acts 10:34,37-43/Ps.118/Col.3:1-4/Jn.20:1-9)

Image
"In those days: Peter opened his mouth and said, You know the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after Baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power and he went about doing good and healing all that were possessed by the devil,  for God was with Him" Acts 10:34,37-38 Today, is the Sunday of the Resurrection and there is joy everywhere, because Jesus is risen and was not held bound by the force of the grave and death. We have been waiting for this day as we practiced our lenten observances and today Joy has taken over the atmosphere because He who was killed and buried has risen as He said He will do. we see that by the power of the resurrection the apostles became witnesses to the events about the life of Christ. They proclaimed His name to all those who were listening to them. This is simply our responsibility as we rejoice and give praise to God for letting His only begotten
Read more

The Dry Bones shall Rise again (Ezekiel 37)

Image
The story of the valley of dry bones in the book of Ezekiel is one that inspires any serious christian. The dry bone represents everything that is dead in us which needs restoration from the Lord. Sometimes in life,  our faith and spirituality get so dry and arid that we become disconnected from the things that concern and involve God. Sometimes also as a result of the challenges we face in health, business, work, family, marriage and so on, we feel so empty and dry that we will be seen as a working corpse or a dead. This season of advent is a season when we open ourselves to the mercy of Jesus so that he can heal us of our dryness and restore us to life like the dry bones were restored in this book of Ezekiel. We become dry when we cut ourselves away from God who is the source of our life. We become dry when we allow sin to reign in our mortal body. We become dry when we give in to hatred, wickedness, envy and bitterness. We become dry when we fail to suffer for the sake of Ch
Read more