Trying to Live It

Knowing Scripture is good. Memorizing it is better. Understanding it is essential. But you can know, memorize and understand all the Scripture in the Bible and it is meaningless ... unless you are willing to LIVE it.

Learning to apply Scripture into every day life is a great challenge. It is not always clear how I can take theological principles and then live according to what they teach. Sometimes I find it rather challenging to be tangible with a specific way to live out a Scripture verse.

I find that it comes down to perspective. Am I letting the Bible passage affect the way I think about things? Am I looking at the world through the truth of the verses I am trying to apply? Sometimes it is not about any specific thing I do or don't do. It is about how I approach things, how I view things. Ultimately it is about how I react, speak, act in any given situation. But the key for me is to let the Bible verses soak in my mind, over and over. Then I ask myself if the choice I make, the action I take is shaped by that Scripture. I don't always get it right. But I am learning every day to order my day under the authority of the Bible verses God has given me that day.

Recently this verse has had a profound impact on my thinking and actions:
I John 2:6 "⁶Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did."
Ask me to tell you the story about the man I met on the Weybridge High Street. I'll be happy to share the new insights about living out this verse.

And a passage that has had an on-going impact for much of my life is Ephesians 4:22-24. I invite you to let is soak in to your thinking as well. Lets try to live it together!

^"22You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; ²³to be made new in the attitude of your minds; ²⁴and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."