What Does God Require?

What does God REQUIRE of us? Interesting question. Not what would He like of us, or what He would want for us, but what does He REQUIRE of us?

Moses recorded the following in the book of Deuteronomy-

"And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?
(Deu 10:12-13)

Wow! That sums it up, doesn't it? Some would have you think God doesn't require much, BUT . . . it's just the opposite. God requires EVERYTHING!

But that doesn't mean that the God following Christ following life is a complicated one with lots of rules. The prophet Micah put it this way-

He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?
(Mic 6:8)

The bottom line is that you and I have been purchased with the blood of Christ (Acts 20:28), all that we are and all that we have belongs to Him, and we are REQUIRED TO FAITHFULLY MANAGE WHAT IS HIS.

Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.
(1Co 4:2)

So how have you been doing in managing yourself and all that you have? Have you been managing it as if it belonged to Him? How faithful are we as stewards of what the blood of Christ has purchased?

Yours in Him,

Pastor B.