Deuteronomy 22

The Law of Moses revealed the Lord's concern for everything under the sun. How can the church today use these verses in Deuteronomy 22 for spiritual good? Israel was the creation of the Lord. How much more do we belong to the Lord as disciples of the Jewish Messiah? God's church is now comprised of Jews and Gentiles from all over the world who have been granted faith from on high. We need to be in the light, as He is in the light, and to shine forth moment by moment with the glory of our resurrection Savior.

The resurrection life does not obsess with self, but sees the need of another, and brings the lost home again. The follower of the Lord regularly experiences restoration and is looking to be an agent of the peace of God everywhere in ways that are great and small.

Jesus, who lives in us, is not interested in our exploring confusing and enticing patterns of sin. The disciple of the Lord sees what God has created all around him and even within him. He then goes forward to repair what is broken by sin and neglect. The joy of the Lord is his strength. Isn't that the way you want to live today, to see brokenness and alienation and to be led by God to help and to heal?

People on fire for Jesus touch the world in thousands of ways. They are a delightfully robust expression of the Lord's sovereign care for all those who are weary and hopeless. We see unsafe situations and fix them. We discover new opportunities for fruitful enterprises and put them into practice. We do all of this with prayer and with attention to the voice of the Lord, expecting that the worship of God will make a very practical difference in our lives.

Our lives are to be constant reminders of the Lord's salvation and a continuous reflection of His powerful presence among us. We are not looking to bring forth a mixed message in anything we do, with some advice from hell and some direction from heaven. We earnestly seek the whole will of our God over all of life on earth.

How will the Lord use you today? Why not turn to Jesus every moment? His law reveals His sovereignty over all that your hand will touch and your mind will consider. He wants you to seek peace and pursue it, to find what is good and to cling to it.

If you find this vision of spiritual living in the present creation to be refreshing, you need to reject every sin that would derail you today. By the power of the Holy Spirit you can hate the lying temptations of an enemy who comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy.

The Lord who defeated sin and death for you is very able to purge the evil that turns you away from an honest and peaceful life. Ask Him for help. He will change you.

Help the church to abhor evil. Love the Lord with all that you are and all that you have, and bring the power of the life of Jesus to the world today.