26 January 2009
If I heard God speaking to me, right out of heaven, I would sit up and listen. I'd certainly be quicker to obey what he said, and there'd be a greater sense of fear towards God faced with absolute confirmation of his reality, knowing all my faults, failings, and feeble efforts to live his way.
I need to repent of that attitude of partial unbelief, of stagnancy, and laziness. Because God has spoken to me - his words are right there in the Bible, and I can be just as certain it's what he wants from me as if he'd bellowed down instructions from the sky.
I should already be taking God at his word, rather than allowing a seed of doubt to call the shots. What a dumb situation! God's given his clear words, to be treasured, chewed over, and lived by - they have to become more the foundation on which I build each day of my life, rather than just a slightly dusty book I pull down from the shelf to flick through every so often.
I need to be as willing to obey his written words as I would any words he spoke out loud to me, and I need to respond with the same urgency too.
How do I change?
Let God take me through his Word - be more prayerful as I read and study it.
Take the Word with me - learn it, recite it, turn it over in my mind.
Let the Word truly be my anchor and my guide - it's only in the light of God's revealed truth that I see what reality is, that I see how gross and wrong sin is, and how wonderful, and beautiful and blessed living with Jesus at the centre of my life is.
Stop talking about it and do it - enough said!
