43-45 “You don’t get wormy apples off a healthy tree, nor good apples off a diseased tree. The health of the apple tells the health of the tree. You must begin with your own life-giving lives. It’s who you are, not what you say and do, that counts. Your true being brims over into true words and deeds.
46-47 “Why are you so polite with me, always saying ‘Yes, sir,’ and ‘That’s right, sir,’ but never doing a thing I tell you? These words I speak to you are not mere additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundation words, words to build a life on.
48-49 “If you work the words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who dug deep and laid the foundation of his house on bedrock. When the river burst its banks and crashed against the house, nothing could shake it; it was built to last. But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a dumb carpenter who built a house but skipped the foundation. When the swollen river came crashing in, it collapsed like a house of cards. It was a total loss.”
My Lord, thanks for giving me another new day for serving You. Your works in my life may not be in the sense that it's dramatic in every instance. But You are working continually in my life - healing my injury, strengthening my life, speaking to me with Your words day by day. You keep on reminding me that the characteristic of a believer's life is to experience Your Power in this clay jar like me. You want to shape my life - my inner being - more than what I can just achieve for you. Jesus says, "It’s who you are, not what you say and do, that counts." Pl. continue to build me up that I can become the person to be like Christ - inner being, inner strength, inner relationship with God are the essence of who I am. Let me continue to work the words into my life today. Amen.
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