DECEMBER 17, 2025 ~ FROM A PASTOR'S HEART

DECEMBER 17 DEVOTIONAL BIBLE READING: JEREMIAH 7:21-27

Reading and/or hearing the Word of God are wonderful things, but they are never enough...it is at the point of obeying the Word where our lives really begin to change. When we were wonderfully saved by the Lord, He took us from death unto life. He gave us His Holy Spirit that we could begin to understand His Word and also begin to obey His Word. A transformed life happens at the place of application of God's truth into every area of our lives. Just knowing is never enough. If we only set and absorb the Word, week after week, with no application we turn into "pew potatoes.” We are stuffed with knowledge, but due to lack of application, we become dangerously lethargic and spiritually obese! This is a dangerous condition for far too many Christians and eventually if we never give out and always take in, our hearts will die and we will cease to be the church.

Everything God gives to us was given to share with others. You and I have been blessed to be blessings. It is in obeying the Word of God that we find success as Christians. When we do what the Lord says we exercise our faith...as we exercise our faith we build our faith...by building our faith, it becomes healthy and strong. It is a strong faith that is able to walk through this world of woe and still see the victory of Christ and experience the abundant life that He promised all who would follow Him. We Christians have become famous for our statements of faith...our declarations of our doctrines...our determination to remain biblically correct in all things. These things are wonderful, but if they just remain statements, declarations and determination...without application shown through obedience to these truths, then they are actually meaningless to us. We demonstrate the value of what we say we believe. We show the honor and adoration to the One we say we believe in. We exhibit genuine faith in His wonderful Word, when we move from just hearing, reading, studying, talking...and begin doing! Today, as James reminds us, let's, "be doers of the Word and not hearers only."

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