The bible reflects who we should be. Starring at the words will not change your life, nor reading it again and again. The information doesn't transform us alone, but applying the information to our lives will reform us. His word is POWERFUL. Do it.
"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. But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life! Even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action." -James 1:22-25
My heart burns for passion as I left church this morning. Challenged. Encouraged. Motivated. So many days we read our bibles, do our studies and have our quiet times. But what percentage of that time do we spend acting out who God truly intended us be. Doing what He said. Being the people He has called us to be. Only by our actions do we show other people who our God really is.
So today I was challenged to change the course of how I do what I hear. Encouraged to love harder. Run faster. Be obedient. To live out what I know is true... for the sake of others. If we can't apply what we learn inside of the four walls of what we call "church" then the sidewalks that lead us there will never be used. Share God's love. People hunger their entire lives for that unconditional, forgiving, unchanging, everlasting, and self-sacrificing love...yet never find it. And today I am more motivated than ever to make the name of Jesus FAMOUS.
Nothing else matters in the long run. He is worthy. My everything. What my heart adores.
"Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing." -Eph 2
"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. But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life! Even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action." -James 1:22-25
My heart burns for passion as I left church this morning. Challenged. Encouraged. Motivated. So many days we read our bibles, do our studies and have our quiet times. But what percentage of that time do we spend acting out who God truly intended us be. Doing what He said. Being the people He has called us to be. Only by our actions do we show other people who our God really is.
So today I was challenged to change the course of how I do what I hear. Encouraged to love harder. Run faster. Be obedient. To live out what I know is true... for the sake of others. If we can't apply what we learn inside of the four walls of what we call "church" then the sidewalks that lead us there will never be used. Share God's love. People hunger their entire lives for that unconditional, forgiving, unchanging, everlasting, and self-sacrificing love...yet never find it. And today I am more motivated than ever to make the name of Jesus FAMOUS.
Nothing else matters in the long run. He is worthy. My everything. What my heart adores.
"Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing." -Eph 2
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