Live It!

You are to them as a very lovely song... they hear your words, but they do not do them. - Ezekiel 33:32

Each year, one of my goals is to read the entire Bible. While listing it among my New Year's resolutions, I noticed a bookmark on my desk. On one side was a brief appeal for people to take in foster children. On the other side were these words referring to that appeal: "Don't read it. Live it. Real children. Real stories. Real life." The people who produced the bookmark knew how easily we absorb information without acting on it. They wanted people to respond.

Regular intake of God's Word is a worthy practice, but it's not an en in itself. THe prophet Ezekiel spoke to an audience who loved to listen but refused to act. The Lord said to Ezekiel: "Indeed you are them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them" (33:32).

Jesus said: "Whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock" (Matt. 7:24).

How will each of us read the Bible this year? Will er read it quickly to achieve the goal of getting through it? Or will we read it with the aim of doing what it say?

Don't just read it. Live it! - David C. McCasland

The Bible gives us all we need

To live our lives for God each day;

But it won't help if we don't read

Then follow what its pages say. - Sper

The value of the Bible consists not onlyin knowing it but obeying it.

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I think back when I was in Tawau, I live with my Godmother... the house only living both of us... and I got a full guidian in my path of Chirstian...

But when I left Tawau, my spiritual growth slow down or even didn't move at all... dangerous but I goes back to church after youth camp... at most of the stuffs is settled, and I have more time...

I stopped reading the Bible now... don't know why, don't have the willing to pick it up and read it... although I always take it with me... but i didn't read it... I know I shouldn't just take it around but also read it...

I still remember I had made a promise before in my blog... but I am really sorry about it... I didn't act it out... I will try to improve it...