Receiving The Word of God (TMF:1932)

Tuesday, September 06, 2022
Peace to Live By: Receiving The Word of God (TMF:1932) - Daniel Litton
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       The second half of this verse is kind of hard because it says we are to “receive with meekness the implanted word.” How do we receive something that is implanted? To me, that doesn’t make sense. In looking at other versions of the Scriptures, it is my conclusion that the verse would probably be more accurately read “receive with meekness the word implanted.” That makes more sense. We receive this word, and in receiving it, it is implanted into us. What word, though? James tells us that it’s the word “which is able to save your souls.” This must mean the Word of God. So, the verse shows us that the Word of God is powerful toward us, in that it has the ability to grow us out, to make us better when carefully studied and considered. This is our meekness, our obedience. 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.”