Daily Devotion

April 6, 2006

Psa 119:112 KJV  I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.

It is a sad thing that many of us are prone to preaching rather than acting. Oh, it is so easy to talk about God, to talk about service, and about self-sacrifice.  How many a beautifully constructed sermon has been preached on the virtues of life consecrated to God.  But to those who want to tell me the way, or expound it to me, I say to the smooth-tongued philosopher that I would prefer, any day, one who can show me the way by the example of his own personal consecrated life. Give me a performer of the virtue, rather than an exhibitor.  

And all the more, it is so easy to serve God when life goes like a song; so easy to love and praise Him when the road is smooth and the weather temperate.  But should we be God’s fair weather friends only?  Should we not go all the way in our obedience to His commandments, even of the harder commandments, those we are not so prone to obey because they tend to take us out of our comfort zone, such as to “preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15), to “love your enemies” (Mat 5:44), to “give to whosoever asketh of thee” (Mat 5:42), to not serve God and Mammon (Mat 6:24)?  

Let us today make the hard decisions that confront our spiritual lethargy.  Let us “perform” His statutes always, even unto the end.  

Jam 1:22 KJV  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Patrick Lumbroso
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