Doing Righteousness and Justice (Holiness 4)

To do righteousness and justice
    is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. (Proverbs 21:3 ESV)

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. (Ecclesiastes 11:9)

And how can we do righteousness and justice and be sure that we walk according to God’s way?

How can a young man keep his way pure?
    By guarding it according to your word.
10 With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not wander from your commandments!
11 I have stored up your word in my heart,
    that I might not sin against you.
12 Blessed are you, O Lord;
    teach me your statutes!
13 With my lips I declare
    all the rules[c] of your mouth.
14 In the way of your testimonies I delight
    as much as in all riches.
15 I will meditate on your precepts
    and fix my eyes on your ways.
16 I will delight in your statutes;
    I will not forget your word. (Psalm 119:9-16)

Here in the second stanza of Psalm 119 the prophet gives us fourteen specific instructions concerning how we can do righteousness and justice here on earth during our natural lives:

  1. We must desire to keep our way pure.
  2. We must guard our way according to God’s Word.
  3. We must seek God with our whole hearts, not just a small portion of being. We must not be double-minded and cleave to the sins of the world while we say that we want to follow Jesus.
  4. We must pray that God will keep us in his will, keep us from temptation, and keep us from wandering from his commandments.
  5. We must read, listen to, and remember God’s Word.
  6. We must possess the goal of desiring to not sin before God.
  7. We must bless the LORD with our lives in praise and worship.
  8. We must pray for and allow God to teach us his statutes.
  9. We must be willing to publicly declare God’s rules, decrees, judgments, statutes, and commandments.
  10. We must delight in and seek God’s testimonies, Christ’s truth, as much, nay more, than we seek the riches of this world.
  11. We must think upon, mediate upon, our LORD’s precepts.
  12. We must possess a plaited, three-fold, single vision and fix our gaze upon God’s ways.
  13. We must delight in Christ’s statutes when he begins to teach them to us in answer to our prayer.
  14. Finally, we must remember and not forget these words of his way which he teaches us.

When we apply these instructions to our lives we will find ourselves working out God’s righteousness (working our our salvation) with good works (good fruit) of justice. We will then ultimately become living trees, fed by the Living Water, Jesus Himself, and will possess within ourselves fruit for the healing of the nations. This is the glory which God will bring to everyone whom he finds faithful in Him. Such a person will become one of the very Sons of God.

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