15 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. 16 If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God[a] that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules,[b] then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 17 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, 18 I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
2 “Repent (or, exchange our ways for God’s ways), for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
Matthew 3:2
Satan will do all he can to keep us from having harmony in our relationships because he wants to steal, kill and destroy us. He’s been destroying us with lies from the beginning in the Garden of Eden. The last thing he wants is for us to be doers of God’s Word.
I think it’s really something how God mentions in the Bible’s book of Isaiah that if we continue to choose to live in our ways that the result will be that we oppose each other through increasing disharmony.
On the other hand, if we repent, if we turn from our ways and choose to begin to learn about God’s ways to live, we’ll have more harmony between us. This is why it’s so important to be doers of the Word, of His ways.
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
John 14:6 NLT
How do we learn and put God’s ways in our lives? By reading the Bible to see what Jesus has to say about how we should live our lives in this world. This is how we’ll stop opposing each other and move towards harmony.
God bless,
Mark