Applying What We Receive (TMF:1933)

Wednesday, September 07, 2022
Peace to Live By: Applying What We Receive (TMF:1933) - Daniel Litton
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       James continues: “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 who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.” James just shared with us an important, pivotal, and key truth that we need to make certain that we understand. Remember, we have to “receive with meekness the word implanted.” We know, or should know by now, that just because we receive the word implanted, that doesn’t mean that it cultivates any fruit into our lives. I love to study. I like to read and reread the same things over and over. In fact, if it’s a particularly good book, I may read it fifteen to twenty times over in order to fully understand it. However, just because I may read it over and over, it isn’t going to do me any good if I don’t put its concepts into practice. If I don’t apply it, if I don’t practice it, I just know it. I become a hearer only, and not a doer.