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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