Do What Is Right….

If we were to compare this passage in Deuteronomy to modern day America, how would it correlate? How many murders go unsolved? How many innocent people are killed every day in America? In this time, the Israelites of the nearest town had to break the neck of an innocent cow, in order to be absolved from the guilt of the dead body found closest to their town. Half the murders in America today go unsolved. Is there any one trying to shed the guilt of our nation because of it? What about abortion? Over 65 million babies have been murdered since 1973. Our country is divided on this “valuing life” issue. The only answer I have is one truth about God. It says it here, and throughout scripture: God hates hands that shed innocent blood. And He will not let the guilty go unpunished. Those that support it are just as guilty as those that do it. If you’re confused on this truth, maybe you need to examine your own heart. Look into why you don’t take this seriously, or even why you support the “devaluing of life”. One day each one of us will stand before God, and give an account of our life. I will only have one thing to say. With that in mind, I try my best to live those words out in my life now, working out my salvation. Thanks be to God, for rescuing me for His glory. Stand up for the innocent. Love what God loves, hates what He hates. And depend on Him daily, to empower you to “do what is right”, regardless of the cost.

1 “When you are in the land the Lord your God is giving you, someone may be found murdered in a field, and you don’t know who committed the murder. 2 In such a case, your elders and judges must measure the distance from the site of the crime to the nearby towns. 3 When the nearest town has been determined, that town’s elders must select from the herd a young cow that has never been trained or yoked to a plow. 4 They must lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and that has a stream running through it. There in the valley they must break the young cow’s neck. 5 Then the Levitical priests must step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister before Him and to pronounce blessings in the Lord’s name. They are to decide all legal and criminal cases.6 “The elders of the town must wash their hands over the young cow whose neck was broken. 7 Then they must say, ‘Our hands did not shed this person’s blood, nor did we see it happen. 8 O Lord, forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed. Do not charge Your people with the guilt of murdering an innocent person.’ Then they will be absolved of the guilt of this person’s blood. 9 By following these instructions, you will do what is right in the Lord’s sight and will cleanse the guilt of murder from your community. Deuteronomy 21:1-9