Receive the Implanted Word

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James 1:21 “therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness , and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”

Is there any need to write on this? It goes so perfectly with yesterdays writing (1 Peter 1:1-3). Just as you desire the pure word of God to grow in the fullness of Him, so desire it because it is able to save your souls! The word of God is living and powerful.

Yesterday we were told to lay aside “all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking” and today we are told to lay aside “all filthiness, and overflow of wickedness.” These things, these sins (even if yours is not listed here) are a hindrance in us receiving the word of God. When I walked in porn I understanding of the word was off a little bit. Though I could read and “get” stuff my prideful actions of not laying aside my sin prevented me from receiving the word with meekness. If I could not receive it then how could it “save my soul?” it couldn’t! once I found myself in complete brokenness, a place of repentance and humility, I found the saving grace of Jesus. It was then that I started coming to the word of God having “laid aside all my filthiness, and overflow of wickedness.”  And it was then that I found the word of God desirable and able to save my soul.

So fellow believers let me encourage you to seek the word of God like a new born babe. But let me also encourage you to lay aside (put away, radically amputate) all you sins, and overflow of wickedness. There is freedom in Jesus. By His strips we are headed.

Be blessed and walk in freedom