Hear And Do

Good Morning!! There are so many days, that today's verses fits me, better than any other. The person in the verse who looks at their self in the mirror and, forgetting what they looked like, goes on their way. Just the other day, like always, I had looked intently into several scriptures. Later, at work, I tried to remember what I had posted for that morning's devotion,...but after working at my job, allowing the world into my mind for hours, I had trouble recalling my reading. Pressure from trying to accomplish my work on time, and attempting to provide answers to the numerous questions that come my way, I had started to lose my patience,...and forget that my real job is to serve.

If any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror . . . and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act they will be blessed in their doing.—James 1:23-25 (NRSV)

That's why we need the input of the Word of God every day,...it is fuel for our soul. Put some of the Bible's words and wisdom into your mind each day, as a deposit into your "spiritual account." Then at times like those today, when we cannot recall what we've studied or read, we can still have an abiding sense of being connected to the presence of the Holy Spirit.

When we take in God's word, we feed our soul and prepare ourselves to serve.

Lord, help us to be sensitive to see when we can become doers of the word. Amen.

"Realize that we are not just saved to be forgiven of our sins, or to be assured of our eternity in heaven,
...but we are saved to know God."