Tag: accepted by God

You are sons of the Lord your God…you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God.

The Lord has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. (Deuteronomy 14:1-2)

Those are amazing words to reflect on. They were spoken to Israel, but they are now also spoken to us. (1 Peter 2:9-10)

The question is, how do we respond?

We are to be holy as God is holy.

For the Jews, that meant, among other things, rejecting pagan religious rituals (1, 21) and following a special diet (3-21).

Perhaps that diet was God’s way of daily reminding them they were not to merely live on physical food, but on every word he spoke. (Deuteronomy 8:3)

We are no longer bound by that diet (Mark 7:14-19), but it is still God’s desire that we be holy. To imitate him.

That means watching not what goes into our mouths, but what’s in our hearts. (Mark 7:20-23)

But what is our motivation for being holy? To impress God? To prove we’re worthy of his acceptance?

No, we are already accepted. We are already his children, his treasured possession.

Why then?

Because we want to be like our Daddy.

Is that your heart?