What if… for just one day you put God and His word first? This would mean that you would have to read it and DO what it says – to the best of your ability. There are only a few behaviors that you would really need to focus on. Using scripture as the basis, God says that what He requires is for us to do three things (Micah 6:8): do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God. In the New Testament, while not abandoning these three, the requirement is to believe on His Son.(Acts 4:12).
I would suggest that to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly are behaviors based in our beliefs. It is not possible to consistently walk in those behaviors without first coming to salvation in Jesus and what He teaches. Next is to understand and know the behaviors that are just, merciful, humble and the ones that aren’t. Without your own operational definitions of these behaviors, it’s impossible to know if you are doing what you say.
In so many ways you really are what you do. Do you believe you could, for just one day, be just, merciful, and humble (with God)? It is as much purposing to act in those ways as it is to intentionally seek out opportunities to be and do what is asked. Since I believe in options and choosing, I believe that we all have the ability to do and be just and merciful and humble… for just one day. It is mindset living.
What if you did attempt to follow these three behaviors for just one day… what would be the result? And what if this concept caught on when you shared what you were doing and other people attempted to do the same … for just one day – what would be the result? And after you tried it for one day, you tried it again – for just one day. What would be the result? Then again, perhaps that’s the wrong emphasis – the result – how would you feel? Regardless of others doing the same thing, how would your thinking change? Possible? … for just one day.
… but, what do you believe?
