Psalms 15 (The Message)
1 God, who gets invited to dinner at your place?
How do we get on your guest list?2 “Walk straight,
act right,
tell the truth.3-4 “Don’t hurt your friend,
don’t blame your neighbor;
despise the despicable.5 “Keep your word even when it costs you,
make an honest living,
never take a bribe.”You’ll never get
blacklisted
if you live like this.”
I just took the time to catch up on a bit of Bible reading, and first reading Romans 13 and then Psalms 15 you have to be amazed at how close they are together.
Romans 13 is on how to be a good citizen, meaning that you must obey the laws of your government due to the fact that all governments are under God.
Then reading Psalms 15 handling more moral laws, and doing the right thing.
The two passages ties up very nicely for me in the way that if you would be the person that would obey your government laws, you would naturally be the kind of person that would obey these moral laws, hopefully.
I want to challenge everyone reading this, and myself, to start keeping our words, always. Not forgetting about something we promised for convenience sake, and start living the Christ like life we were called to.
