#Serious,#Committed,#Real

There is a seriousness and stillness that the Lord is looking for.  The seriousness is required to pursue what the Lord is commanding.  The stillness is required so one can hear what the Lord is commanding.  The adversary is speaking too.  And, many are being led astray by his words.  If the Lord says to do something, do it.  If the Lord says not to do something, do not do it.  The Bible is the instruction.  The Holy Ghost is the power that will cause obedience.

In the book of Jeremiah, the Lord has us to consider the Rechabites.  A people that adhered to the instruction and teaching of their elders concerning strong drink, where they were to live and what they were to plant and eat.  When the Rechabites were tempted to go against their teaching, they did not.  They held to what they had been instructed to do.

"And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine. But they said, We will drink no wine: for Jonadab the son of Rechab our father commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink not wine, neither ye, nor your sons for ever:  Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers".  Jeremiah 35:5-7

 "Thus said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hear my words? saith the Lord."

 "Notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me."  Jeremiah 35:13,14b

 Of a truth, it is time to seek the Lord will he come and rain righteousness upon you.

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