Thursday’s Blog – Implanted chip NO, Implanted Word YES

Thursday’s Blog – Implanted chip NO, Implanted Word YES

Proverbs 20:6 – Most men will proclaim each his own goodness, but who can find a faithful man?

Bible Challenges and Comments

In the NIV Proverbs 20:6 reads – Many a man claims to have unfailing love, but a faithful man, who can find? Again one of the major problems faced by believers is not the Word of God; it is the interpretation of the Word of God. Many of us would simply read over these words and not give another thought. Most of us just read and clock in to a few moments with the Word and then we clock out. Our devotional work day is done and our day in the world begins.

In James 1 beginning in verse 21 we read the following – Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. (There is so much in these few words we may not get much further). The word “overflow” can be translated “abundance” so would this mean that God is aware of the abundance of wickedness that is vested in the inner man?

There is ONLY one way to deliver your soul from this abundance of evil, receive with meekness (or eagerness of soul) the implanted Word. So how is that accomplished? We need to go beyond reading, we need to open our soul to the Word of God and allow it to impregnate (implanted) our soul. Also James is not talking about “initial salvation” but is talking about the power of the implanted Word of God to deliver us from the abundance of evil that rides on the highways of our mind.

I have an example of this that I would like to share. All of us who are of the age to drive have no doubt gone out, maybe to work or some other travelling adventure and have faced traffic that is heavy, slow and aggravating. Then along comes one whom my wife has branded the “cowboy” his four by four pickup is hopping and skipping through the traffic like a runaway nightmare. Your mind is at peace for the moment and then, the evil thought “rage” overcomes you and you discard “peace with God” for a chance to “bark and howl” like that raving wolf whom the “natural man” is.

Here is the rub… the implanted Word of the Living God is designed to deliver your soul from this evil! If this is not happening as you and I would like than we are merely reading the Word and we are like the following verses.

James 1:23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

Each day I do these devotionals, I am reminded of the present evils that lurk in the natural man of who I am, so I know that many of us are likewise reminded as I am, not because of these devotionals but because God’s Love challenges us to have a holy conduct that our natural man in us rejects.

25 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.

I love The Word of God, notice what James continues to say… 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is USELESS.

Do not be a useless saint today, and do not seek revenge over one ignorant soul for the sake of losing your wonderful testimony that can reach many more without words as they see your good deeds and glorify God on your behalf.