In the local society we live in, many of us mistake hearing with learning and making a difference with it. Take for example someone heard a rumor that there was gun shooting incident at a certain part of the local community but he never bothered to investigate nor verify how true it is. Worse, the hearer believes in the rumor and starts thinking he knows a lot about it and then he talks about it to his neighbors sounding like it is factual. Think about how many people he misled with what he only heard. Think about the danger of unverified allegations passing from one neighbor to another.
The truth of the matter is that hearing itself is insufficient when it comes to making a difference in life. Hearing only can be misleading if the information heard is false or just a piece of fiction or an exaggeration meant to mislead people. Hearing only gives a person the false idea that he/she learned something valuable. Hearing only is not the same becoming enlightened. Hearing only is not the same as verifying the facts.
In the spiritual life, hearing is not good enough and as believers in the Lord we have a responsibility to not only learn about the Word of God but to act with it starting with applying it in our lives. As believers, we must stop being hearers and strive to be doers. Doers of the Word specifically!
Here’s an excerpt from the Holy Bible.
Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 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 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.
James 1: 21-25 (NKJV)
Verses 23 to 25 of James Chapter 1 refers to God’s Word, the purifier of holy living. Purity of life is not a quest for perfection as much as it is a quest for liberation from those things that may inhibit effectiveness and reduce power-filled living. The Word of God is expressed as a means of reflection – a mirror into which we are to look and see ourselves. The Bible has a corrective instruction and also an unwritten lesson. We should avoid the temptation to see (and judge) others in the Word, analyzing what they ought to do, instead of what we need to do.
Moving back to hearing and doing, it is clear that we are better off as doers than hearers. What we learn from Bible Study sessions or learning from the biblical lessons emphasized by the pastor to us during Sunday worship service, we must apply into our lives. We can also spread the good news of the Lord to the many unsaved souls out there and free those who have been trapped by religion. We must emphasize to the unsaved souls that there is more to the personal relationship with God than there is to religion.
Along the way, we should not forget to humble ourselves and do things properly. We can also stop living with the beggar mentality when praying to the Lord. We can also get rid of religion (along with its idols, rituals, so-called blessed sacraments, repetitive prayers and traditions that have little or even nothing to do with the Holy Bible) which has too long been hindering people from establishing a true and living relationship with God.
Religion is also a convenient tool used by Satan to not only prevent Christians from connecting with the Lord, but also to steal God’s Word from them. May I remind you, dear readers, that Satan is a loser for he has been defeated by the Lord countless generations ago. While religion teaches people that Satan is all-powerful and has an army to counter God, he (the enemy) is really just a lone loser who uses deception, distraction, manipulation and lies to bring down Christians and take them away from the Lord. Clearly Satan does not want any of us to read the Holy Bible, apply its lessons into our lives, worship the Lord and continue having a living relationship with Him.
To learn the lessons from the Holy Bible and applying them into our lives and acts are ways to keep Satan down.
How to do things properly? Learn again what was taught to us and grow with it. Learn from this passage from the Bible.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of us have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Hebrews 5: 12-14 (NKJV)
Once we grasp what we learned and do things properly under the guidance of the Lord, we can take action to deepen our personal relationship with Him, save the unsaved souls and make a tremendous positive impact on the world. That is an achievement worth doing!
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