You Can Do Better

~~~ Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 ~~~ Psalm 50 ~~~ Matthew 23:1-12 ~~~

Wash yourselves clean!
Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes;
cease doing evil; learn to do good.

If only it was that easy to just wash ourselves clean...
that is to wash our soul clean.
We can cease doing evil. We can learn to do good.

We must first come to the realization that we are doing evil...
that there is more we need to learn about doing good.

We cannot sit back on our laurels being proud of ourselves.
As long as we are still breathing we can learn to do better.
We can always become a better person.

I do not want to be like the scribes and the Pharisees.
They thought they had arrived that they had all of the answers...
that they were the authority and had the final words.

They focused their attention mostly on their physical appearance.
No matter how you are dressed
if you are acting like a jerk you are still a jerk.
...do not follow their example.
For they preach but they do not practice.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled;
but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Rather than showing off it is better
 to be genuine and sincere when you are with others.

Let the love of Jesus come through as you interact with others.

Concentrate on how you can better be a representative,
 an ambassador of and for Jesus.

We have been called to serve others
 not rule over them
 with heavy hands and
countless rules and regulations.

He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me;
and to him that goes the right way
 I will show the salvation of God.

Praise God in every situation.
God will Bless us as he shows us the path of salvation.
Have you praised God today?


~~~Peace~~~