"This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then YOU will make your way prosperous, and then YOU will have good success" (Jos 1:8, emphasis mine).
This morning, as I did my quiet time, I felt the Lord impressed this on my heart. Father God has given us His son for the forgiveness of sin and for us to be reconciled with Him and also given the law that we may walk righteously. But who makes your way prosperous and successful? YOU! "For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success". God given His guide for our lives but WE need respond to it and put it to practice in our lives.
"... being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart" (Eph 4:18). A life that is close to God and His ways will be an abundant and prosperous life. And we need fully understand the word "prosperous" here, more than in the normal understanding of just wealth, Webster dictionary says it signifies healthy growing and favour. What a life!
Indeed, such a life requires us to have our lives, decisions and actions consciously and deliberately made to align to God's Laws. "that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness" (Eph 4:22-24).
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