Verse of the Day 11/16

 

 

James 1:22   But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.   English Standard Version (ESV)

 

For today's verse we'll return to the passage in James one  from yesterday where we considered that we are to be quick to listen and slow  to speak.  To listen is to hear.  We can't truly hear what  someone else  is  saying  if  we  talk  over  them.  When  it  comes to  God's Word and  what He  has  to say to  us  we need to listen, and  hear what He is saying  to  us.

 

When God speaks, it is the same One who spoke  the  world  into existence, turned  darkness into light, brought  dead back to life, and  stilled  the  crashing  waves that  is speaking  to us, will we  listen?

 

We recently sang the Steven Curtis Chapman song  in church, "We Are Listening".   The chorus goes like this, "We are listening, we are listening, breathe your  living  word  into  us, God breathe your living word through us.  We are listening, we are listening, let  us  hear  the  sound  of  Your  voice, and the beating of  Your  heart."

 

A simple  line  from  that chorus is the key "breathe  your living  word  through  us".  It is not  just being breathed into  us  it  is through  us, it will come  through,  flow through in  our  actions,  IF we are truly listening, hearing.   If  that is not  happening then the final  words of the verse will be the  case, we  are deceiving  ourselves, fooling ourselves,  kidding  ourselves.  If we examine  our lives and have any inclination  that  that  is  the  case, get up,  get  back on your feet  and follow Him, commit  to being a "doer".

 

May the old  hymn, Channels Only, be true of  us.

 

How I praise Thee, precious Savior,
That Thy love laid hold of me;
Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me
That I might Thy channel be.

• Refrain:
  Channels only, blessed Master,
  But with all Thy wondrous pow'r
  Flowing through us, Thou canst use us
  Every day and every hour.
   
  Blessings,
   
  Mike
   
  James 1:22-24The Message (MSG)
  ^22-24 Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
   

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