Digging Deeper~ 5th week ordinary times

Deut. 30:15-20:God tells the Israelites that they need to love and obey him, even stay close to him when they cross over the river to take the land as your own. If you will have life and be blessed. But if you do not, you will have death and curses.  Ps. 119:1-8: Blessed is the man who lives holy lives & obeys God laws & Word all the time. I do not always do that. I wish I did. For your laws are fair. I praise you for that. I will work hard to obey your commands. So please don't leave me.  1 Cor. 3:1-9:Paul tells those from Corinth that he cannot talk to them about deep spiritual things because they are still babies in Christ. Why? Because they are like people of the world. How? They are jealous & argue among themselves. For example you say that you follow the person who baptized you. You are not to follow a person, you are to Follow Christ. Why? Because that person only planted the spiritual seed in you. God is the one who made the seed to grow. Yes, someone will plant the seed, someone will water the see and they will be rewarded for that.. But the seed will not grow until God makes it do so. You are like God's farm. We all must work with God to help that farm grow.  Mat. 5:21-37:Here Jesus is teaching. First, he teaches that it has been said that you should not murder someone or you will be judged. Then he says that you should not be angry with your brother will be judged by God. If you say bad things about your brother, that is worse. Lastly, if you call your brother a fool, you will be in danger of Hell's fire. With this in mind, if you remember that your brother is upset when you come to the altar. Leave your gift there and go and make up with him. Then come back to the altar. If your enemy is taking you to court become his friend fast. In fact, you should do that before you go to court. If you don't he may take you to court and you could end up in jail.  Jesus teaches about sin with sex. first, he teaches that it has been said not to have sex with someone with someone you are not married to. Then he says that if you look at a woman and want to have sex with her, you have already done that sin in your mind. If you sin with your eye take it out for it is better to not have the eye and go to Heaven then to have it and go to Hell. If your right hand leads you to sin, cut it off. It is better to not have it here on earth then to have your whole body goes to Hell. The devotional today tells us to not look to man to save us. Only look to God to save us. Once we have been saved we need to get real close to God and love him a lot. How? By reading and obeying his laws and Word. For it tells us how we are to live holy lives. Jesus taught on some of the sins we are to stay away from in Matthew. Paul also spoke of some of those sins in  1 Corinthians.   Now we do sin from time to time, but we are to get those things taken care of, before we worship God. That way we will come to him spiritually clean(Mat. 5:21-37). Strive to live that holy life and tell others about it.  When we love and obey God ,we will also be free of Hell's fire and receive the promise land from God.  Challenge of the week: This week, let us work to get closer to God. Let us work hard to obey God's laws and Word. For only then will we grow up in our spirit. If you are at odds with God or man go an make it right. So that you can come to God with a clean heart & mind.  Accomplishment of the week: What did you do to accomplish your goals this week? How has that brought you closer to God?  Click here to Reply, Reply to all, or Forward