Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart

"The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief." -T.S. Eliot
James 1:22-25

22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.

Dear sisters…this is a challenge to us! We all know a lot of scriptures, we know what we are to be doing, yet…we sit in fear, in comfort zones, in time constraints. Those things are not of God! They are conquerable through God! He is the provider of strength and boldness to overcome fear. He is the provider of courage to step out of your comfort zone. He is the captain who has set out the course for your life, allowing the exact amount of time for each situation you encounter and endure. Our imperfection is what gets in the way.

We aren’t just striving for more treasures in heaven, nor for the blessings promised at the end of verse 25; No, we are striving for far beyond that!! We are striving to serve and GLORIFY the God who has saved us from sin, from ourselves, from darkness.

Make it a personal challenge to yourselves throughout this weekend and next week to memorize an instruction in scripture, and to pray over it, how you can more fully carry out that instruction in life to glorify God and to reach the lost around you! He has promised that if we ask, it will be given to us. If we seek, we shall find. If we knock, that door will be opened. Dare to take Him at His Word, dare to ask for His guidance to be given to you, and to be used in and through you into the lives of others throughout this next week. You will be amazed at what WILL happen with a willing heart and feet that actually walk forward!! And, if that scares you to death…pray for a heart that will not rest until it has this very desire!!