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IYAR 20

DO Justly

 

“He has showed you, O man, WHAT IS GOOD. And what does the Lord require of you but to DO justly …” (Mic 6:8 AMPC, emphasis mine)

              

King Solomon had a reputation for great wisdom – Yahweh-given, anointed, wisdom – that he might ‘judge’ the people of Israel with wisdom and understanding (see 1Kin 3:6-15).  There is recorded for us the story of two women that came to Solomon with an infant, disputing over whose child it was, and who was the true mother of the baby.  Solomon, by the power of Elohim, was able to “do justly”, and was given the understanding to discern who the real mother of the infant was – doing what was right and pleasing in the eyes of Elohim (see 1Kin 3:16-28).

 

The Hebrew word translated in the opening verse as “do justly” is the word mishpật (Strong’s H4941), and is the same word found in 1Kin 3:11 and 1Kin 3:28, in reference to King Solomon.  It is a legal term, and involves doing what is right, and making decisions based on what is right.  Mishpật requires action; “doing justly” involves motion and doing, anything less would cancel what is right.  If we are earnestly in pursuit of “what is good” in the eyes of our Elohim, then here is a requirement that cannot be ignored.

 

What is “doing right”? 

 

“… but through love SERVE ONE ANOTHER.  For the entire Torah is completed in one word, in this, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”  (Gal 5:13-14, emphasis mine)

 

“Therefore, as the opportunity arises, let us DO WHAT IS GOOD to everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful.” (Gal 6:10 CJB, emphasis mine)

 

“Beloved ones, do not imitate the evil, but the good. The one who is DOING GOOD is of Elohim, but he who is doing evil has not seen Elohim.”  (3John 1:11, emphasis mine)

 

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