TEVET 7
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.
If our desire is to spend the
olam haba – the eternity to come – with our Messiah King, ‘living on His
holy mountain’, I believe it would correct to say that ‘doing what is right’ is
of critical importance. Remember, folks,
there are no gatecrashers 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.”
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