When thinking about a soldier the words duty and honor come to mind. We are soldiers in God’s army. The church is fighting the biggest battles ever faced for souls.  There is such complacency among those who call themselves Christians. It is hard to tell many of them from the lost. It’s time we put on our armor and go to battle with the enemy for the lost.

What is our duty as Christians?

Eccl 12:13-14

13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.  14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

This scripture is one of my go-to verses to keep me on the right path.  It says, in summary of the whole thing we are to Fear God and keep His commandments.  This is our entire job as God’s people.  Fear him and keep his commandments. Then God will judge what we do to see if it’s good or evil.

When God brought his people out of the land of Egypt, he gave them ten commandments. This was basically a guide for how to live their lives.  By the time Jesus came, they had taken the ten commandments and written so many laws to help them keep the original Ten that it was hard for them to keep up with them all. The law was imperfect and so were the people. The word is full of commandments, not just the original ten.

Matt 22:37-40   37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  38 This is the first and great commandment.   39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

The first of these can be found in Deut. 6 he also warned them to not forget God and go after other gods. If we could get to a place where we love God with all our heart, soul and mind and our neighbor as ourselves then we would be as close to being like Christ as humanly possible.

If we could do these two things, we would fulfill the commandments without trying. Because we would have no other gods before Him or make any idols. We would automatically honor our parents, not take God’s name in vain. We would have no desire to kill anyone or commit adultery, steal, lie or want what someone else has, if we basically Love God and Love People. We would do everything else the word says because we love God.

It is when we allow the desires of our flesh, to get in the way of loving God and others, that we have problems. Now is the time to get serious about our walk with God.  He is waiting patiently for us to yield to him and his plans for our lives.  The harvest is ready, its time we start showing people God’s love. The masses are starving for God and don’t even know it.  It is going to take us to show them the way.

Get in the word, let it be light for your path, food for your soul, strength in trouble, and rest when you are weary.  It will guide us when we are unsure of direction, but most of all it is God himself trying to show us who he is so that we can love him with our whole hearts.

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