Most of the time we know what’s right, but it can be much harder to do what’s right. If we want to enjoy the blessed life, we must know right & do right.
Sometimes, knowing is the easy part. Implementing what we know, however, can be more challenging. Or, is it possible that we make it more difficult than it really is? Doing the right thing can certainly be more difficult than doing what’s natural or what we would prefer, but in addition to that we also have a tendency to make things more difficult than they really are.
We have to get to a point of realizing that our lives are dependent on our decisions- not our knowledge.
Your life will not be a reflection of what you know, but rather what you do.
Knowing is important, but doing is more important.
What are you doing? Are you doing right? Living right, speaking right, thinking right?
What about your relationships- Are you treating people right? Being honest, loving, forgiving?
All these things matter. Honestly, they matter much more than we think. God is much more concerned with our heart than our deeds. It is so important for us to do right, with pure motives. God sees our heart:
“But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
– I Samuel 16:7
God sees the heart.
It is imperative for us to do the right thing from our hearts. We can’t hide anything from God. He sees right through our actions to our hearts.
As we live our lives, we must grow in the Word of God so that we can understand what His will is, and then we must do it. It’s not enough to just know right. We need follow through.
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
– James 1:22-25
We must know right & do right.
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