Monday, October 10, 2011

James 2:22 "Merely Listening"


            “Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”

            Listening to and reading the Bible –while a good practice—does nothing if you do not apply its teachings to your life. It can be so easy for us to think that just because we are going through the motions of Christianity we are obeying God to the fullest extent, but true obedience is following God’s commands. If we are reading the Bible but not doing what it says, the act of reading the Bible is useless to us. Doing so only deceives us into thinking we are following Christ. In order to truly learn what the Bible teaches, we must obey its commands.

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