Just Do It!

One day the Lord politely dropped this word into my spirit and it simply says 
"Just Do It!"

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

The Lord focused my attention on doers, hearers and deceiving.

The dictionary defines thems as the following:

DOERS:         One who carriers out the requirement of something.
HEARERS:     One who perceives by the means of the ear.
DECEIVING:  Misleading.

Based on the definitions of those three words this is what I came up with:  But carry out the requirements of the Word, and not perceive it by the means of your ear only, misleading your own selves.

Here James is letting us know that if we only listen to the Word of God and not apply it to our lives, we are only misleading ourselves, therefore placing the blame for failure on ourselves. God's Word should enlighten and inspire us to do that which is right and pleasing to Him. With today's technology there is not a lack of resource for God's Word.  It can be found in App Stores from your service provider; it can be found on the internet and of course you can still purchase it through many retail outlets.   

JUST DO IT!

Romans 12:1 reads:  I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye pressent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Our bodies and whole selves (mind, thoughts, and deeds) must be presented to God.   When we present our bodies, it signifies a voluntary act of submission to His Holy will.  In the OT, God was specific and detailed about the animal sacrifices that he would allow to be offered to Him.  They for the most part were the first born, undefiled and pure.  I am ashamed of some of the things that I see that are being offered to God.  There has to be a real holiness which consist of an entire cleanliness of the heart and your life; our bodies can no longer be used as instruments of sin and uncleanness.  They must be set apart for God and put to holy uses.  God gave His one and only begotten Son as a living sacrifice to us, the least we can do to show our sincere appreciation to Him is to offer our bodies back to Him, that is your most sincerest form of worship.

JUST DO IT!

Romans 12:2 reads:  As followers of Christ, we are to be in non-agreement with the world no fashioned by its influence.  Conversion (turning around) and Sanctification (dying to sin more and more and living to righteousness more and more) is a produce of this change that has taken place in our minds.  Only those that have been changed by a new mindset will be able to prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  Old things are passed away and all things have become new.

JUST DO IT!

James 1:21 reads:  Wherefore lay apart, all filthiness and superfluity and naughtiness, and receive  with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save your souls.

Engrafted sticks out here to me.  When I think of something being engrafted, I relate it to skin.  When burn victims have been severely burned over a certain percentage of their bodies, their skin must be engrafted.  Healthy skin is taken from other parts of the body and placed in the severely burned areas.  These skin grafts save the burned victims skin.  The Word of God is taken out of different chapters and verses of the Bible and engrafted into the heart to save lives that have been severely burned by sin.  Just as the skin grafting process saves the severely burned skin, so does the engrafted Word of God, it saves our souls.

DON'T JUST HEAR THE WORD----------------"JUST DO IT!"