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This Plant Died Of Obesity?
By Bests | April 1, 2008
In my enthusiasm for care giving, I over-watered this plant. Now it’s dead. As a horticulturist, I declare it died of “root-rot.” As I think about it more, however, I decide to look at it another way. Unable to put to use all of the food and water I poured into the soil, the poor plant died of “obesity.”
Day after day, I pour principles and truths into my mind, and how much of it do I actually use? I read about forgiveness, and intellectually I understand the principle. I even agree with it. Then a friend stands me up, a family member is insensitive, or a rude driver cuts me off on the freeway, and what is my first response? Painful childhood memories invade my mind, and instinctively I react in a way that doesn’t glorify You.
It is frightening, Lord, to realize that You will hold me responsible for all the principles and truths I cram into my mind as I try to gain knowledge of Your ways. Like Your Parable of the Talent teaches, You expect me to use what I’m being taught. It is one thing to hear You, quite another to obey You. In fact, Judaism teaches that one does not know a truth until one has put it to use. “Do then know.”
I’ve discovered that I don’t really know anything that I’ve not put to use. It is in doing the principle that I learn. Until then, I am nothing more than a “spiritual glutton,” feeding myself more than I can use in my daily walk with You.
Lord, I don’t want to stand before You as a “spiritual glutton.” I don’t want tons of head knowledge, but no heart knowledge because I have not been a doer. Help me be a doer of Your Word, and not a hearer only. Save me from “spiritual root-rot.”
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.” James 1:22 NIV
Copyright 2007 April Lorier All Rights Reserved Worldwide
As a pastor’s daughter and a survivor of severe child abuse, April Lorier has an intimate knowledge of child abuse in and out of the church. She founded COPE, Inc, for the retraining of abusive parents. Her testimony before the CA State Legislature helped with the passage of The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (CANRA), signed by Ronald Reagan.
April Lorier is an award-winning writer, Author, Christian Speaker, Columnist, and former music teacher.
Her autobiography, “God’s Battered Child: Journey from Abuse to Leader” (2007) is available at Amazon, B & Nobles, Target and at gods-girl(dot)com
Tags: Doer, Hearer, James, Obesity, root-rot, The Word
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