Human Response 182: Commit not the Abominable Customs

Leviticus 18:30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

Therefore, because the land spues out the defilers and the soul that commits abominations shall be cut off, you will be different. You will look different, and you will live differently, than the world around you. You will respond by keeping my ordinances. Your lifestyle, and worship life, sets you apart and makes you a peculiar people. This difference will be noticed by the world in which you live, and you may even be mocked, ridiculed, teased, and persecuted by the world that hates God.

This moral lifestyle responds by keeping the ordinances of God because He is the Lord my God. My God is kind and loving, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in faithful love. God is so good that His Ways are also good for me. We respond in fear (faith) and love to such a good God, that we have a God-given desire and a Spirit-driven power to live His way and avoid the world’s ways. Then it so happens that we are blessed and life is good.