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Dear Young Christian:
Perhaps this past weekend you attended some Bible meetings, or you were somewhere the Word of God was read and explained. Now as you head out for another busy week at school or work, the question is, what are you going to do with what you heard? Are you going to forget it, neglect it, go contrary to it, or by the grace of God, KEEP it?
When the Lord was here on earth He stressed the fact that it was not only important to hear the Word but to keep it. On one occasion He reminded those who were following and listening to His words, that, “Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it” (Luke 11:28).
James gives us a similar exhortation. “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was” (James 1:22-24). Let’s be doers and not just hearers!
Your Christian Friend,
Jim Hyland
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