My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart, So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man (Proverbs 3:1-4)
Seated in the heavenly places
If you are born again in Christ, you are seated in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus and live in Him. When you stay in Him, in the Word of God, then you will understand, why God gave us His commandments. God is the Creator of all things and He knows what is going on in the spiritual realm. Because of God’s great love for us, He gave us wisdom and insights through His Word in the spiritual realm.
When God gave the law to Moses, God made the invisible, visible, through His commandments.
No person was able to keep the whole law, except one and that is Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ was full of the Holy Spirit. He came in the flesh, except He was not born of the evil seed of Adam, but of the holy seed of God.
But Jesus Christ came in the flesh and was fully Human, just like you and me, and He was able to sin.
Therefore, the devil tried to tempt Jesus during His life. But Jesus loved His Father and because of that Jesus stayed obedient to His Father and wanted to please His Father.
Jesus knew His Father, He understood the spiritual laws. That’s why Jesus obeyed the commandments of God. Jesus had seen the Father work, act, while He was in heaven.
I speak that which I have seen with My Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father (John 8:38)
What did Jesus have, what we don’t have?
What did Jesus have, what we don’t have? Exactly, nothing. We have everything, what Jesus had; we live in a flesh, and we are filled with the Holy Spirit. As the Father was in Jesus, and He in Him, so is the Father in us, and we in Him, and so is Jesus in us, and we in Him.
We are united with each other. We have no excuse anymore, to not do the works of Jesus Christ and not do what Jesus has commanded us to do (Matthew 28:19, Luke 24:47-48, Mark 16:15-18). It is time to show Him our love and obey His commandments.
When you walk on the path of (eternal) life, your days will be lengthened and you shall have a long life in peace.
Your mind will be in perfect peace. No worries, no fears, no anxieties, none of that will enter your life and take possession of your mind and life.
When you keep and obey His commandments your mind will be in perfect peace.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusts in Thee (Isaiah 26:3)
Let not mercy and truth forsake you
The mercy of God will flow out of you and you will walk in truth. You will treat other people, the way you want to be treated. Because God wants you to love your neighbours as yourself (Read also: ‘What does it mean to love your neighbour as yourself?).
You will speak and walk in the truth, because God wants you to walk in the truth. He is your Father and if you love Him you will obey Him and keep His commandments (Read also: ‘The commandments of God and the commandments of Jesus Christ‘).
When mercy and truth are in you; is settled in your heart and you will act on these, then you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
‘Be the salt of the earth’
