MEDITATIONS ON THE TRUE CHRISTIAN LIFE

...."This book of the law [the Word of God] shall not depart from [always be in] your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful [take heed] to do according to all that is written in it; for THEN you will make your way prosperous, and THEN you will have success".... Joshua 1:8 NASB

May 13th

ACTING ON HIS WORD

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*	IN John 6 :47 Jesus said, "He that believeth hath eternal life."

"Believing" is "having". It is possession.

Mental Assent admires the Word, confesses that the Word is true and very desirable, but it doesn't possess.

Believing ends in the glad confession, "It is mine. I have it."

How little real action on the Word we see today.

You remember the man who was brought into the presence of Jesus by four of his friends. (Mark 2:1-12)

Jesus said to him, "rise, take up thy bed and walk."

Had he not acted on the Master's words, he never would have been healed; but because he acted, he was healed.

Luke 5:5 Peter said, "But at thy word I will let down the net."

What a change would come into some of our lives if we said, "At Thy Word I will."

We have clung to the theories of men and ignored the Living Word.