Quick to listen

Tuesday - 5/15 - Read James 1:19-27

James 1:21 talks about the word of God being planted in our hearts. Is your heart ready to receive the seed of God's Word?

Are you "quick (Gk. - a sense of urgency) to listen" to God's Word? Is there an eagerness in your heart to listen to God's voice through His Word? Is there a hunger that just keeps gnawing away at your soul to hear God's voice?

When you do spend time listening to God's Word is your heart constantly interrupting by talking to you about what you need to do later in the day, chores you need to do, bills you need to pay, things you need to do, or are you "slow to speak?"

When you listen to the sermon on Sunday morning have you stilled your heart before God to hear what God is saying through the pastor? Do you prepare your heart before the service to be quiet before God?

When God's Word confronts your life, do you get angry with God?

Is there any unrepented moral sin that you have not confessed and forsaken in you life? Are you willing to? Has any moral failure short-circuited God's message in your life?

Are you rationalizing any moral failure in your life instead of repenting and forsaking it?

Read Luke 24:13-35 for next Sunday