Serve "Now therefore fear the Lord and serve with integrity and truth: and put away the gods to which your fathers served beyond the River, and Egypt, and serve the Lord. " (Joshua 24:14)
Every day they come to us news of celebrities from politics, economy, sports, etc., etc., that things have been discovered in dishonest, having long been doing wrong, and nobody noticed. Of course, this does not happen only with celebrities may be through any other activity and affect ordinary people.
One can lead a sinful life and also continue their normal activities as if nothing happened. But in the things of God when holiness is lost, all it does is ineffective and irrelevant in the eyes of the Lord.
Our service to God should be characterized mainly by the purity and sanctity within. Many have great gifts but little fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self).
That's why today's passage encourages us to fear (reverent respect for) above all to the Lord. It is the reverent respect that keeps me from being contaminated and live in sin. It is reverent respect for God that makes me stay away from those "gods" interior seduce me and govern.
Integrity is an interior feature is reflected in the outward life. It is possible integrity actions without living in integrity, but in the Kingdom of God must be holy as God is holy.
When our service to God has a mix of the sacred with the sinful, the ultimate effect will not be productive in the eyes of the Lord. God always and above all, look at the heart, he will not be duped. What's in your heart?
Author: Ritchie Pugliese
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