![]() “Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.” — Psalm 119:133. God’s order should be demonstrated by the way we treat others. It is impossible to love God and not see that love exhibited in how we speak to others and how we treat others. The more we are in the Word of God, the more our lives will conform to it. Before an offensive word is spoken or an act is committed we are convicted, for the Lord knows what we are going to say before we say it. The mental and spiritual energy it takes to do what we want and dismiss righteousness is far too much work, “obedience is better than sacrifice.” To mistreat others is a great contradiction for the Christisn and communicates that our life is out of order. We must not forget our relationships to our families. He is a sorry Christian who would neglect to walk in his own household according to the duties required in the word. Are you not a child? Christianity does not loose you from honouring your parents. Are you not a servant? The gospel of Jesus does not teach you to be an eye-server, to purloin, or to be pert and disrespectful. Are you not a parent? Religion imposes upon you new duties to train up your children in God’s fear. Are we neighbours? Let us bless all around us: bless and curse not. Whoever our neighbour may be, we owe him, according to our Lord’s law, no small consideration. I have no right to annoy my neighbour; I have no right to do anything which causes him loss or injury; on the contrary, I am bound to love him as myself, and if I can serve him in any way, to lay myself out so to do. Beloved, you have relationships towards sinners. These are of a very solemn kind. Since Christ loved you, and died to save you, he has taught you to love others, and to be willing even to lay down your lives that they may be saved. Do you see how this subject opens up?” ~Charles Spurgeon Let us invite the order of God in our lives by not resisting it. “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.” -1 John 4:20-21 GiGi❤️
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