Seasoning for Your Doing

Meditations for Ragamuffins 

March 14, 2024

Seasoning for Your Doing

But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.

James 1:22 (NRSV) 

When you hear this phrase, “You are my beloved, with whom I am delighted and upon whom my favor rests,” do you experience a quickening in your spirit that this affirmation is God’s word for you? If not, seek, and ye shall find. (Matthew 7:7-8) When you have received this blessed assurance from God, remember our mission is to take the wonder of our personal experience with God and share our lives with the world around us.

When you read the Gospels, you find that Jesus was mostly on the move, going from village to village to meet the poor, captives, blind, and all who were in need. When Jesus met with the people, his experience of assurance from God was always evident. As we are witnesses for Christ, we too want our personal experience of God’s assurance to be evident.

Often the ways of the world, especially those of the social media, influence our witness. We must guard against this, so the world’s ways don’t drown out the seasonings of our personal experience of God’s love and acceptance. Two scriptures have become increasingly important to me as a hedge of protection against the ways of the world’s culture.

“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”

Romans 12:18

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up,

just as in fact you are doing.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 

My Takeaway: I believe incorporating these verses into our lives will make us “doers of the word.” I also believe the more we listen for our Abba to say, “You are my beloved, with whom I am delighted and upon whom my favor rests,” the more we will become doers of His Word!

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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