FOUR IMPERATIVES!!!!

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There are four imperatives that deserve our time and consideration.

There is repentance - which allows you to use a mistake as a stepping stone instead of a stumbling block. It is renouncing a bad yesterday for a better tomorrow. How you define it is your choice. Whether you repent or not is God’s imperative.

The second of the four imperatives is overwhelming love for God and your fellowman. Sometimes, for some people, it is easier to say, “I am sorry I was bad” than it is to love the neighbor they have been bad to. To love the unlovely is a challenge, but that is exactly what this imperative is all about.

Third, having asked forgiveness for what you did that was wrong yesterday, what do you plan to do to improve how you live tomorrow? It isn’t that God is not patient and loving. You never use up some spiritual quota of forgiveness. But gosh, a little honest effort at improvement would most likely be appreciated. And that an understatement.

What criteria should you set up? Well, questions such as: will you be a nicer? Make your husband or wife happier? Be more honest in all of your every day doings. Remember the commandments more readily and follow them more often? Those who work with you, will they be able to see a difference? Make a criteria list that never stops growing.

A story to make my point. A young man when he called on a girl for their second date was approached by her father with the following question, “Well, what are your intentions, young man?” The boy never moved so fast. He was gone in a second and was down the street faster than can be described. You see he didn’t have any intentions.

Some people have dates with the Lord but never have any intentions.

And yes, fourth - think about how often the word “way” is used in the Bible. Hundreds of times. “The way of the Lord is perfect.” (2nd Samuel) “The way of the ungodly shall (to) perish.” (1st Psalm) The question, when it comes to commitment…what are your intentions.

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