Doing

DEVOTION 1 JOHN DOING 1 John 3:7-10 7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. NIV So what is right? How do we know we are children of God? Because we already did what was right. The only right thing to do is to accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. It is certain that if we had not done that right thing we would still be children of the devil. Now can we continue to do right? Yes, of course, and we can continue to live our lives pleasing to God, which of course is giving him honor and praise, bringing glory to him and trusting him completely for our life. Do our good deeds or deeds of righteousness count as well? Most likely we could say that as we serve him, or how we serve him, by doing what we have been called to do is part of doing what is right. There should not be one believer who does not have something to do in the service of the Kingdom of God. Not a single person who has accepted Jesus Christ can simply be a bump on a log, sitting and soaking, not ever doing something. It is possible we could say that if we are not serving in some capacity we are being disobedient and therefor sinning. That would even qualify as keep on sinning as long as we continued to do anything for the Kingdom. We have all been called to be living stones being built into the temple of God; we have been called members of one body each having a part to do. If the foot refuses to do its part, we would either fall down or have a severely bad limp. If the eyes, well we get the picture, we all must be about doing what is right, if not we might not be born of God, but rather of the devil. Are some just pretending to do what is right, but in reality are not? It may not be possible, if fact it is not, to live a life completely free of sin, but we can certainly turn our backs on purposefully doing what is wrong, which includes not doing anything for the Kingdom. We cannot allow anyone to lead us astray into believing we are alright if we just listen to them. We all must be about our Fathers business, that is truly being born of God, we are his children and we pay attention to his commands, his teaching, his correcting, his discipline, and we love him, and that means we love everyone else, because he so loved the whole of mankind that he sent Jesus to die for all of them, not just us. So doing what is right is a lot of doing, not just being. It is not about us just be concerned about not making a mistake, not committing a sin, being perfect, because if we think that, we have been led astray. It is really all about “doing” the right thing.