Saturday, September 21, 2019

Heaven is harmony not obedience

Morning: Psalm 119:41-64; Isaiah 8:11-20; Romans 10:1-15
Evening: Psalms 23, 27; Matthew 5:17-20

When, at 18, I left England for America, one of my uncles said to me, “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”  Pretty broad latitude, I thought!!  But righteousness is not about doing good; it is about being ourselves, because who we are is already very good.  Jesus teaches: “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”  Heaven is not a place where everyone is well-behaved (how boring would that be!?), but a state of being in harmony with God’s ways … a much higher state than obedience.

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