1 Kings 14:7-8 (NKJV) 7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you ruler over My people Israel, 8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you;
and yet you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;
There are many, many instances of us being told in God’s word how important it is to follow God’s laws, decrees and commands.
Let’s talk about that.
In its barest form, it would appear that God is simply asking us to strictly follow a set of rules and laws.
But if we look at the heart of this, it goes much deeper.
In reality, God is urging us (appealing to us) to give Him our hearts.
You see, God isn’t really concerned with a set of laws. Laws don’t change hearts or make us righteous. They just give us guidelines.
Simply following a set of guidelines will only create rituals and traditions. That is not what God wants.
If we look at the latter part of the verse above, God tells Jeroboam that David followed Him with all his heart.
That is what God wants; our whole heart.
Because David followed God with his whole heart, God honored him down through the generations.
There are powerful lessons for us to learn from this.
So, despite our faults & failures, let’s be sure to keep this at the forefront of everything we do; to follow God with all our heart.
And as we do this, God will also honor us, and our lives will be blessed because of it.
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