|
Have you ever wondered why it is we can receive the Word of God week after week, yet we are not experiencing more victory in our lives?
Author, Beth Moore tells of when seeds are taken to the starving in Africa, often the need is so immediate that they eat the seeds rather than plant them and await the harvest. Many times the Word of God meets our immediate need of hope and encouragement but we still act un-lovely and struggle with the same issues over and over again because we do not DO it!
We KNOW that God has forgiven us, yet we struggle with shame and guilt because we DO NOT let go!
We KNOW that the Bible tells us to go talk to those who have offended us, yet we let bitterness and resentment grow inside us and even division in the body of Christ because we DO NOT go and work it out.
We KNOW we need to forgive those who have hurt us yet we struggle with bitterness and unresolved anger because we DO NOT let go.
We KNOW that we need to think on things that are true and lovely, yet we battle thoughts because we DO NOT put negative thoughts out of our head and replace them with positive ones.
We KNOW we ought not to feed our bodies with junk yet we struggle with weight and health because we DO NOT make a change.
We KNOW we ought to spend time disciplining and training our children yet we cry when they rebel because we DO NOT do what we ought.
We KNOW we are to resist the devil and yet we constantly deal with the ramifications of our sins because we DO NOT want to stay away from the world.
We are so stupid sometimes. No wonder the Bible refers to us as sheep. We hear the Word. We read the Word. We KNOW the Word. Yet we struggle with so many things because we do not DO it. If we will begin to execute the Word of God in our lives there WILL be results!
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Jam 1:22-25
| 
Posted by