I read this devotion three years ago, I am not sure who wrote it or where I read it, but I saved it in my files on June 30th 2010.. It has been a huge encouragement to me presently, as a 12 years- believer in the faith.. Still gives me teary - eyes when I read because of my great desire to imitate Christ daily!
Take heed my readers:
Matthew 7:24-27 (New International Version)
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into
practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came
down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it
did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears
these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man
who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the
winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
The truth presented to us in God's word is not meant to simply
"read". It must be "put into practice" and "acted
upon". The apostle John said, "If we say that we have fellowship with
Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth" (1 John
1:6). It's meant to be "practiced.
"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For
if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing
his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and
immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect
law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of
the work, this one will be blessed in what he does (James 1:22-25)
….. Once we hear these words, we make ourselves into "fools" if we do
not do what they say....
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