Kingdom Living - The Commands of ChristSample

Kingdom Living - The Commands of Christ

DAY 33 OF 98

Commands of Christ: 31 

Be merciful and perfect as your heavenly Father is merciful and perfect. 

I am not particularly fond of any passage that talks about how I am to do or be anything at the same standard that God does or is. Those commands make it quite clear that they are impossible to obey. That is the point. In our own ability, these commands are impossible to follow. These can only be obeyed as we are walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. They can only be followed if Jesus resurrected life is being demonstrated in our (spiritually) crucified bodies. We must not be satisfied with being better than we were yesterday. Anything short of God’s perfect standard needs to result in a holy dissatisfaction. We are to be merciful to the same extent God is. We need to be perfect as God is. 

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Kingdom Living - The Commands of Christ

Our lives should be characterized by what Jesus commanded and as His followers we should be getting others to love (and thus obey) Him as well. This is not optional or for extra credit. It is the very essence of what it means to be His follower. "...teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you..." This is what Kingdom Living is all about.

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