"Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."
In verses 15 - 17, we see a directive for each of us to pay attention too. This verse in itself is repeated throughout all of Scripture. It is the message of Christianity, our responsiblity to well in the midst of all the earth. combination of the end of verse 16, 'Cease to do evil' and then concluded with the first phrase,'learn to do well' is our life testimony.
Learn to do well - word study, well; 'Cease to do evil, learn to do well' is also repeated throughout Scripture, (I do not have the exact count yet for this word/phrase study). We will deal with our 4 words at hand - learn to do well. Doing well has nothing to do with doing well in your own eyes or the eyes of the world. Doing well has everything to do with pleasing God. If God is not pleased then you have not done well. And God, Who cannot lie, will never say, 'Well done', to the soul that has not done well.
Doing well is found in obeying the Lord and His commands. 'If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.' The instructions of our obedience is found within Scripture. One of the necessities to understand about 'doing well' is not just doing what mom and dad did; or grandma and grandpa did. It is not even doing what the church is doing. It is doing what the Lord has commanded. WE are to read, study and examine our lives to 'take heed' to all our ways. There are 4 things that follow this phrase in this verse, that is specific actions we are to take, especially in regards to other people around us and in our community.
Learning to do well is inward and outward. That which we do with our hands (outward towards others) and in our hearts (our inward relationship with God). Blessed is the one who has a Divine teacher to bring to remembrance the doing of right and hating that which is evil. Blessed is the one that has godly parents, teachers, pastors to instruct in these things. But the absence of these blessings is sure to allow flesh, humanism, to rise up and destroy what God intended.
