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"Seek good, and not evil, that you may live," Amos 5:14.

Looking for life? Then pursue good, not evil. That is, pursue Jehovah God. Life may be found nowhere else: only in God. Only in doing the good. Some sin has focus in personal faults. Other sin concerns treating people as chattel. It concerns failure to recognize God, whose image rests in every human being. Hold up justice, do not put it down. Love the truth. Love who speaks truth. Love whoever scolds righteously. Love good. Hate evil. Establish justice. Otherwise. Otherwise, says the Lord of armies, the wake of God's passing through the land will produce wailing, mourning, lamentation, moaning. No gain for perverters of justice. God gives life only to whomever chases after the good.

When we speak with a brother or sister today, we affirm life by speaking what the Word of our Creator establishes as right and true. We repent from self-seeking and turn minds to God-seeking. And, together, thus, we honor God, the life-giver.