Application

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Hi Peeps,

Today’s Quote

“Understanding God’s Word is fairly simple. Applying it to your life, well, that’s a whole other animal.”~TB

In Theory

In theory, love sacrifice, patience, long-suffering, and perseverance are lovely and beautiful concepts. When you speak them to one another, those words provide a false sense of accomplishment. In today’s society, people sing sweet nothings, as if spraying perfume on a stinky body, in an attempt to hide the foul smell. Words without deeds are empty. Many of you have filled your hearts and minds with empty rhetoric. Friends, listen carefully: as idiot people, we have subjugated those words, turning them into nouns when they really are verbs!

In Practice

Love, sacrifice, patience, long-suffering, and perseverance requires DOING! You can’t just say the words and poof life is wonderful. You have to love when it’s hard. You have to be patient in tough times. You have to be long-suffering when the odds aren’t in your favor. You have to persevere when failure comes your way. Anyone can be an armchair quarterback. It takes humility in understanding that God can only help you with this verbs. You cannot overcome your sinful nature on your own.

Today’s Question

Are you applying the verbs or do you stink under the perfume of fake words?

Enjoy the reading

Psalm 137

1 Beside the rivers of Babylon, we sat and wept as we thought of Jerusalem. 
2 We put away our harps, hanging them on the branches of poplar trees. 
3 For our captors demanded a song from us. Our tormentors insisted on a joyful hymn: “Sing us one of those songs of Jerusalem!” 
4But how can we sing the songs of the LORD while in a pagan land? 
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget how to play the harp. 
6May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I fail to remember you, if I don’t make Jerusalem my greatest joy. 
7 O LORD, remember what the Edomites did on the day the armies of Babylon captured Jerusalem. “Destroy it!” they yelled. “Level it to the ground!” 
8 O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us. 
9 Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!

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