Hearing & Doing

So many people these days claim their Christianity but don't follow the lifestyle of how a "Christian" is intended to. A person can go to church but not listen, not care, and not even believe. A person can open a bible but pay no attention to the words inside, or sing the music and not be praising God. Just because they claim to be a Christian doesn't mean they are. I, nor anyone else, is in a position to judge the beliefs and innerself of those, but God knows. In scriptures it talks about hearing and doing the word many times and instructs us how to live and love.


"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!"
Matthew 7:21-23

"My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
James 1:19-27

If we live life in a worldy way and disregard God's word then our eternity may be comprimised. It's the things in life that matter the most that we put aside most of the time. Be aware of what God desires and the way you do what you hear.