Represent Him Faithfully

September 3

God has high expectations of His people. Oh, you might not guess that fact from the way we live our lives, but it’s true. We are very self-oriented and we are very world-focused. Most people who live their day-to-day lives do so without any contemplation whatsoever of what God may want from them.

Perhaps they are totally unaware that He wants anything from them at all. Worst case scenario—they believe He wants the wrong thing from them. It is hard to imagine that terrorists who blow themselves up do so without the strong conviction that they are pleasing the god they serve.

The question becomes, ‘Who is god to them?’ If a person is following a false god, he will do the bidding of that false god. ‘Who is god to you?’ If an individual knows God, the One Living and True God, it behooves him to also understand what He expects of man.

Deuteronomy 4:14 makes it very clear that the Lord God commanded Moses saying, “Teach My people My statutes and My laws and My ordinances. Follow them in the land to which I send you.” Wherever His people go, they are to faithfully represent Him to those of like precious faith and to unbelievers also.