“God’s Salvation Is For Whoever Lives His Commandments!”

“God’s Salvation Is For Whoever Lives His Commandments!”
The tears on many cheeks and the hurt and pain of many hearts are the results of injustice and intentional wrongdoing. The Lord says, “maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.”
When justice is absent and when people delight in wrongdoings those who suffer are the minorities and the marginalized. In days of old some of the marginalized minorities were foreigners and eunuchs. Ancient Israel, just like most African tribes have a derogatory term in reference to foreigners. And foreigners are never fully integrated especially in religious matters. Eunuchs suffered the same fate, but theirs was even worst in that they didn’t make themselves that way. Most eunuchs were castrated so that they shouldn’t have any affairs with the oncubines in their masters’ harems. In Africa like it was in Israel a man continued to live through his progeny. A eunuch had no progeny to remember him because he couldn’t procreate. Such a person carried this pain all through life and into the grave.
These two groups were excluded in worship; so the foreigner could only say, “the Lord will surely exclude me from his people.” And it was the eunuch’s complain, “I am only a dry tree.”
Contrary to the exclusivism practiced in Judaism, the abundance of God’s grace is all embracing.
With God it is not about who you are; it is about what you are in his covenant relationship. If the eunuch keeps the Sabbath, chooses what pleases God and holds fast to his covenant, God will give him an everlasting name that will not be cut off. The same blessings of God is for the foreigner who keeps to God’s word.
This all embracing inclusive and unconditional love of God is reflected in his house being called “a house of prayer for all nations” (Is.56:1-7).
My friend, God’s promised salvation has come to us in Jesus Christ. Let us hold fast to it by maintaining justice, doing what is right, serving the Lord, keeping his Sabbath, loving his name and worshipping him.
Prayer: Thank you Lord for accepting me not for who I am, but for what I am. Holy Spirit help me daily to be worthy of God’s love. Amen!
Have a blessed day! Peace be with you!