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Understanding Our Duty as Christians: Insights from Ecclesiastes 12:13
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Our entire duty is boiled down to just one thing in this verse from Ecclesiastes, my favourite book of the Bible. Ecclesiastes chapter 12 verse 13. The end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
And this verse remains in the Bible, even after the death and resurrection of Christ. So he has paid for all our sins, we stand free and clean before God, but our whole duty still is to fear God, we’re talking about reverence fear, to fear God and to keep his commandments, to obey him, to do what he wants of us.
If we are children, and we have a loving father, then our loving father is going to want us to obey him, and that will be good for us. And that’s exactly the relationship we have with God. One of the relationships. He’s also our King, but he’s our Father, and he’s showing us how to obey him, and the obedience is for our good, as well as for his glory.
And if we are following that duty, then this radically transforms our societies, because then we are operating as kind, loving, generous, faithful, righteous people who are protecting our neighbours, who are fighting for the rights of the downtrodden, who are operating out of love.
Thank you, God, that you have made it clear what you expect of us. And thank you that even though sometimes this sounds like a difficult thing, you’ve told us that your yoke is easy and your burden light. You are operating towards us as a loving father who expects justice and righteousness and truth from his children, and that is not too much to ask for. Please help us, though, to discharge our duty. Because we are weak and sometimes sinful, and we need your help with this, as with everything. Amen.
