Do WORK

How many of us TRULY take the Word of God seriously? We truly obey everything it has to say to us & then go about living it? Apply it? Tough questions. Ask yourself.

I think for many of us we somehow think we're exempt. That certain things in the Bible don't apply to us or we don't REALLY have to obey them. We surely obey the BIG things in the Bible, but somehow the smaller commands aren't as important.

How deceived some of us are! If you aren't obeying just a small command in the Bible, you're disobeying the ENTIRE thing. We have to know that everything the Bible tells us is equally important to follow & ALL of it demands our obedience.

But there's a disconnect. We hear & know what God wants from us, but we choose to obey ourselves & the world. For example, we won't give up certain music. Certain TV shows. Certain friends & activities. Certain habits. Even when we know God calls to pure & righteous living, we still live for ourselves & the world & won't give up the things God calls us to give up.

But how? Why? What makes us feel like we're outside purity & righteous living? We're outside obeying the Bible in it's entirety? What makes us feel like we can call ourselves Christians & continue to live like the world & everyone else?

James 1 tells to "not merely listen to the Word & so deceive yourselves. DO WHAT IT SAYS." We are called to obey the Word of God. To DO what it tells us to do. We aren't exempt. We can't choose what to follow. DO WHAT IT SAYS. Be like Jesus.

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