Yes, I know it is Saturday. Consider it make up for the days I did not send anything out this past week. J Plus I liked this so much I had to pass it on. My good friend Kieran sent this to me. I put it in the normal dW format but did not alter its contents in any way.
Blessings, Kyle
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scripture
Jeremiah 8:8-9 "How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?"
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
background
The Jews to whom Jeremiah was prophesying were great hearers of the word. They went to the temple, and then went about their life. They had a Sabbath life that, in their eyes, enables them to do whatever they wanted with their secular life.
thoughts
That double-mindedness makes God furious. It denies His truth and robs His glory. It makes His people ineffective and unattractive. An independent life cloaked by a Sunday-service Christianity is a mockery of God and a drain on the world (a wise man once told me, "Everyone has two choices in life; you can be a fountain or a drain.").
May we today, strive to be doers of the word; to be fountains of His active love and grace to the world around us.
Blessed beyond measure, Kieran
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