A few days ago my wife was out on her motorcycle on a beautiful sunny day. Suddenly, while slowing going about 30 mph, she was hit from behind. The bike was basically knocked out from under her.
Thankfully the Lord was looking out for her and she walked away from the accident. The bike should be OK too. It could have been much worse, and I am truly praising the Lord for so obviously protecting her.
What amazes me is this, the woman who hit her said "I heard a beeping noise in my car and I looked down to see what it was and..."
Yes, you heard that correctly. The "beeping noise", you know... the sensor that new cars have to tell the driver they are too close to something. She heard the warning, with no clue what it meant and did not obey it.
Cages...
Ok, back to the Word of God.
Reading James this morning.
"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like." James 1:22-24 (NIV)
We hear the Word of God in church on Sunday, we hear it at Re-fuel. Hopefully we are reading it daily. But are we obeying it? Do we do what it says?
James continues,
"But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do." James 1:25 (NIV)
The Word of God is life. It is wisdom that makes us wiser than the most educated, and wealthier than the richest people on earth. It steers us through the confusion and darkness of this world into its perfect light.
But like that beeping sensor, if we don't seek to understand and to obey, it is of no use to us.
Let us strive not only to hear the Word, but to obey what it says.
