> I do not believe God cares if you wear shoes in his presence
> or not. He wants us to be kind, merciful and compassionate.

Amen and amen about the love bit.

And yet… I (and another person I met) BOTH felt absolutely compelled to take our shoes off when we found ourselves in God’s Presence – as a sign of honor and reverence to Him. So the shoes thing DOES matter.

No doubt He looks at our heart, no doubt that love is the main command of Jesus – but nevertheless God is a mighty God and reverence and obedience is due to Him.

When the Jewish nation refused to honor and obey Him, He called them stiff necked etc. I don’t want to be stiff necked – and yet I am in many ways.

> God tried to kill Moses for not circumcising his son.

This was for a lack of obedience, check out your own blog post about this. Obedience matters. In the NT, it’s obedience to the command that Jesus gave… which is to love! (Lovely circular reasoning)

Thanks,
Mark.