Don't Get Cut Off From The Vine!

Yesterday, many Christians sat down to hear a word from the Lord in their local church. They shouted "amen" and "hallelujah" as they agreed with the words the preacher was saying. Many felt convicted about certain issues they knew they had to get right with God, and lots made resolutions in their hearts to "do better".

And here we are this Monday morning... How many of us are making the effort to put into action the word that we heard? How many of us are walking out the truths that God has revealed to us in His Word?

Far too often we hear the word and do not obey. We hear God's call to come up to a higher level in Him, agree that we've got to change, but fail to make those changes that we ourselves see are necessary.

But just hearing the word and not doing what it says sets us up for failure. We deceive ourselves into thinking that we're okay. We use all the knowledge that we know to comfort our hearts. We know what God says about living holy. We know all the scriptures on tithing and giving. We know that our first priority as Christians is to evangelize the lost.

With all our head knowledge, we just know that God is pleased with all of the wisdom we've gotten.

God could care less about what you know. He's looking at what you do. Jesus Himself said that any branch of His that did not produce fruit would be taken away. (John 15:2) Too many of us have deceived ourselves thinking that because we're attached to Jesus, the vine, that we, the branches, are okay.

Today, take inventory of your actions. Are you reflecting the Word of God that you've heard? Are your actions mirroring what you know? Make sure that your branch is producing fruit! Don't let your own deception get you taken away from the vine!

Verse of the Day: 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 1:23, 24