7C22.      1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23.    David’s reverence for what God thinks and does was the foundation of David’s relationship with the Lord Yahweh.   That was worth more than any position David held or thing he accomplished.  It is who we have become by the help of the Lord from which our actions flow that really matters.

Luke 6:27-38.  The development of religious faith in God’s people on earth began in the Old Testament.  That growth was built upon by Jesus to its culmination in the New Testament.    Our goal is to work with the Holy Spirit, as He enables us to mature in faith to be the “children of the Most High,” to be love or “merciful, just as our (your) Father is merciful.”  To the degree that we mature into the divine image of God to which God created us to be, “then our (your) reward will be great” in heaven.  In Matthew 5:48 Jesus said, “So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”  God is the measure of all things.  “For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”

1 Corinthians 15:45-49.  “The first man, Adam, became a living being, the last Adam (Jesus) a life-giving spirit.”  Genesis 2:7 says, “The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.”  As a physical living being on this earth our science of biology sees us as the highest development of animal life on this earth.  By giving us the Holy Spirit to live within us, Jesus gave us spiritual life within us, which is far beyond our physical life, so that we could become God’s children, in his image and likeness.  Our daily goal is to develop and mature from our earthly being, which will be left buried in the dirt, to be a God-filled being that will rise to heaven.