Deuteronomy 12: 32
Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.
Proverbs 30: 6
Do not add to His Words lest He reprove you, and you be proved a liar.
Revelation 22: 18-19
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the Tree of Life, and in the Holy City, which are described in this book.
God is serious about what He wrote to us. He told us everything we need to know to live our lives in this World in a godly and righteous way, and we need every word. He didn't put in anything superfluous, and He means every word.
The principles we learn in studying His Word apply to every circumstance we may face, every situation we could ever encounter in life.
We get into trouble whenever we either add something He didn't intend, or deny and leave out something He said or commanded.
O my Father, thank You for giving us Your written Word. Thank You that it is complete and finished. Father, strengthen us to be very careful to do everything You have told us to do, and not just talk about it, living our lives according to Your ways in everything we do.
Help us, Father, to be very careful, purposeful, and intentional to obey You. Let us not naturally fall and slip into error, into sin. Teach us to be very careful to do Your will, Your way.
Father, continue to wake us up to what is going on in the World around us, teach us how to promote Your righteousness in our society, and to build toward Your Kingdom.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
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