The Good Life. Join Lady Renee Flowers of Transformation Community Church for this week’s Winning Women Wednesday, where she talks about “The Good Life”. We hope you’ll be blessed by this timely and inspirational message. Many blessings!
The Good Life
Scripture Reading — Leviticus 26:1-13
“If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops. And the trees their fruit.” (Leviticus 26:3-4)
When we are living in a right relationship with God, we can be assured of his blessing and favor.
Our text in Leviticus today describes material, social, and economic favor that God gave his people as they lived in a right relationship with him.
Many of us experience similar blessings. Our pantries are filled with plenty to eat.
We enjoy success in our work and stability in our homes and families.
But even when that isn’t the case, we can count on God’s love and care for us. God keeps his promises to us and is always with us (see Matthew 28:20b). The Great Commission-After Jesus tells the disciples to GO and make disciples of all nations, baptizing in the name of the Father-Son-Holy Spirit, and to teach them to obey everything He commanded…” And surely, I am with you always, to the very end of age.”
We do well to always remember , we are called to walk in obedience to God. There are rewards/blessings in our obedience.
While this cannot earn God’s love for us or earn us salvation, we experience more fully our enjoyment of God when we strive to walk in his ways.
Walking with God fills us with joy and delight in his presence.
There is no greater blessing than to live each day with the Lord, who loves us more than we can fathom… and who is able to do exceedingly more than we all we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us. (Ephesians 3:20).
In Leviticus, God reminds his people that he redeemed them in order to live among them.
This is true for us today as well! At the cross, Jesus freed us from our slavery and guilt in sin so that we can walk with him, delighting in his presence and living with thankfulness each day for him.
He has redeemed us to be his treasured possession. He is able to help us live in gratitude to him each day. And to show us the joy of obedience to him. Amen.