Won't it be a nice idea to have life as easy as following safety instructions on your newly bought refrigerator when installing it? Or even much easier when there are principles to follow in order not to repeat the mistakes of our ancestors? Well, if life has a creator, then there must be a form of guideline as to what we have to do in order to do well or to better put it, live a stress-free life. On the other hand, if the earth was not created, and designed by God, you may as well not live the way you like, and not worry purpose - why you were born, why you have to be alive at this time and not in the times past or what you are here to do.
Why are you a believer? Why are haven't you seen the promises of God roll out in your life although you keep reading them in the Bible? In the past 1 of this article, (What You Don't Know Is Killing You) I stated the a few points of how getting knowledge is important and how ignorance is costing you more than you can afford. Today, I want to talk to you about how disobedience can make your acquired knowledge useless.
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 observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
So many people have stopped believing in the promises of God. Some Christians also often believe that some parts of the scriptural promises cannot be fulfilled in their lives. This is a warped mentality which is not true. It is good to read books, it is also essential to get knowledge but no amount of knowledge will benefit you if you're not a "doer". I remember reading some books in the past: books with practical approaches in which if religiously followed will yield results. However, I read the book alright, I know some of the steps off-head, what was lacking is that I was results (fruits). The same applies to God and His Words. Many of us don't see fruit of righteousness and fruits of the Holy Spirit in our lives not because we don't go to church, not because we don't pray, neither is it because we have not memorized some verses but rather because we have not allowed the Word to sink into our hearts to the point where we will move to practice what is written. Today, many Christians are seen by unbelievers as hypocrites because we're basically practicing the exact same things we keep preaching against.
Obedience To Instructions Guarantees Success.
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be CAREFUL TO DO EVERYTHING written in it. THEN YOU WILL BE PROSPEROUS AND SUCCESSFUL..
Joshua 1:8
We have ruled out obedience from our minds but yet we want to somehow reap the fruits of those who obey. It is not enough to shout AMEN!!, it is not enough to go to church every Sunday/ Saturday, it is not enough to just read the Bible, we have to be people who are "CAREFUL TO DO EVERYTHING written in it". That is the condition to be prosperous and successful.
I recently had to help a friend instal a new standing fan he had bought and since I'd installed some fans in the past, I went straight for the fan without reading the manual first. At the end of my work, the fan looked perfectly installed and was working, however, I had four nuts lying on the table. Little did I know that the fan's legs were shaky. I did not tighten it with the nuts. That is how our lives are like when we put the Word of God aside, or even reading it without without doing what is written. Our relationships look sour, our marriages are bitter, our lives are not in place, our children have become wayword, and we ourselves have lost track of our purpose and the main reason why we are on earth. You know why? it is because we have do not trust the Lord who made the earth and its inhabitants enough to rely on His promises with patience. But rather, we have resorted to our own wisdom and understanding.
The best person to repair a product is its manufacturer! The best reference to look at, to be able to fix the problems is the manual provided by the manufacturer. When this wisdom is unknown, you'll end up abusing the very things that are supposed to help you grow, The success of every product is in OBEDIENCE to the rules in the manufacturer's manual. You are God's child. Live by faith in God.
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