TEVET
6
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.”
©2021
[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/do?s=t
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