Careful to Do

 

“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 

Inform – to communicate knowledge

Transform – to change in character or condition

Every time you open the Word of God you have a choice to make.

And what is that choice?

Simply this – will I allow the sacred scriptures to do nothing more than fill up my head or will I allow them to change my heart?

We are to be transformed into the image of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Simply being puffed up with a whole lot of knowledge is not enough; even if that knowledge comes from the Word of God.

Satan had a level of knowledge in the Word.

He was informed but not transformed.

The Scribes and Pharisees likewise were very knowledgeable in the Law of Moses – every jot and tittle – but they didn’t even recognize their Messiah when He came.

Their heads were informed, their hearts were never transformed.

Listen to the admonition of the Apostle Paul.

His words, inspired by the Holy Spirit, are as essential to any believer today as they were the day he penned them.

“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.”

II Timothy 2:15

Go beyond information allowing God’s Word to transform you.

This is how we present ourselves to God as one approved!