Tammuz 8
What is Right
“Who may live on Your holy mountain?
The one … who does what is right …”
(Ps 15:1-2 TLV)
When we
are doing something, it requires some
action on our part, for example, if I am doing
the dishes, I am washing them; if I am doing
my morning chores, I am tending to our livestock, etc. ‘Do’ is a verb, and means, simply put, “to perform (an act, duty, role, etc.)”[1]
What does it mean, therefore, to do “what is right”? I would
suggest to you that it would involve doing
those things that are defined as right and true, as we would find throughout
the pages of the Torah. In fact, we are
instructed to Sh’ma (Strong’s H8085,
Deu 6:4-9), a word that not only means to hear, but with the hearing is also
the doing, of being obedient to do what
we are hearing.
Should our desire be to spend the olam haba – the eternity to come – with our Messiah King, ‘living
on His holy mountain’, I believe it would be correct to say that ‘doing what is
right’ is of critical importance. Remember,
folks, there are no gate-crashers or illegal immigrants in the kingdom of our
Elohim. Not now, not ever.
“Therefore put away all filthiness and
overflow of evil, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able
to save your lives. And become DOERS OF
THE WORD, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a
hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural
face in a mirror, for he looks at himself, and goes away, and immediately
forgets what he was like. But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of
freedom, and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, BUT A DOER OF
WORK, this one shall be blessed IN HIS DOING of the Torah.” (James 1:21-25
ISR, emphasis mine)
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