But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. For if you listen to the word and don’t obey, it is like glancing at your face in a mirror. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. But if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free, and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.—James 1:22-25 (NLT)
Heavenly Father,
Help me not only to listen to Your Word, but also to seek to experience firsthand the Truth of Your Word practically demonstrated in my life—as I receive that Truth deep in my heart and apply that Truth to every aspect of my life in careful, willing, and even eager obedience to Your every instruction.
Save me from the self-deception that I am accomplishing
something good when I merely listen to Your Word, but then simply walk
away—failing to embrace and apply the instructions that You have placed there
for my benefit.
Help me always to approach Your Word carefully and with proper
reverence for the power of the Truth that it holds—Truth that invites me to
live in the abundant blessings of liberty.
Help me to invest the time to look carefully into the
perfect law that sets me free that I might understand and do what it says—being
careful to remember what I have heard—so I can walk in the freedom of those
blessings that you have waiting for those who obey.
Help me not only to listen to Your Word, but also to seek to experience firsthand the Truth of Your Word practically demonstrated in my life—as I receive that Truth deep in my heart and apply that Truth to every aspect of my life in careful, willing, and even eager obedience to Your every instruction.
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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