Category: Be Ye Transformed

We oftentimes think, and therefore say, that we need to “apply God’s Word or Truth to our lives”. Believed it literally, myself, for decades,… until the LORD started me on a daily study of the book of Proverbs! There, He began to show me the following verses that teach the very opposite!

💡 “So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;” Proverbs 2:2
💡 “Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.” Proverbs 22:17
💡 “Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.” Proverbs 23:12

☞ Of course, there is this last one of only four occurrences of the word, “apply” in the whole Bible (“applied” occurs only three times: Ecclesiastes 7:25; & 8:9, 16):
💡”So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalms 90:12

☞ So, here we can clarly see that we, our heart/life, must be doing the applying.

The LORD has so graciously helped me to discern that, despite His clear counsel in Jeremiah 13:23, my practice had always been to try to “apply” God’s Word, almost like a medicated Bandaid, to the “problem spots” of my life; trying to clean up my life “in installments”!…

☞ Also, that my crucial, dire need, all along, had been to just “apply” – submit – my heart to the surgical scalpel of His Word of Truth!
💡 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12_
💡 “For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he [Christ, being the Word/Rev 19:13] woundeth, and his hands make whole.” Job 5:18
💡 “Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock [of my once stony heart!] in pieces?” Jeremiah 23:29
💡 “… in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound. ” Isaiah 30:26
💡 “He healeth the broken in heart, and *bindeth up their wounds.” Psalms 147:3
☞ Only the defective requires surgery, and only the sick needs to “apply” (submit) himself to treatment. (Please re-visit Isa. 1:2-6 and Mark 2:17!)
💡”He sent his word, [Christ! John 1:1, 14] and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”Psalms 107:20

📌 What a realisation this truth has been, and what tremendous effects the submissiveness of my sinful heart to it, has the LORD been producing in my hourly walk with Him!…

“Praise ye the LORD”!!!

📌 By the way, in case this is new to you, too,… Would you care to join me?

May 31st

“I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; . . . who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 1:4-8

“In this world we have temporal duties to perform, and in the performance of these duties we are forming characters that will either stand the test of the judgment or be weighed in the balances and found wanting. We may do the smallest duties nobly, firmly, faithfully, as if seeing the whole heavenly host looking upon us. Take a lesson from the gardener. If he wishes a plant to grow he cultivates and trims it; he gives water, he digs about its roots, plants it where the sunshine will fall upon it, and day by day he works about it; and not by violent efforts, but by acts constantly repeated, he trains the shrub until its form is perfect and its bloom is full.

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ works upon the heart and mind as an educator. The continued influence of His Spirit upon the soul trains and molds and fashions the character after the divine model. Let the youth bear in mind that a repetition of acts, forms habits, and habit, character. . . . Is the love of Christ a living, active agent in your soul, correcting, reforming, refining you, and purifying you from your wrong practices? There is need of cultivating every grace that Jesus through His suffering and death has brought within your reach. You are to manifest the grace that has been so richly provided for you, in the small as well as in the large concerns of life. . . . Great truths can be brought into little things, and religion can be carried into the little as well as into the large concerns of life.

“The commandments of God are exceeding broad, and the Lord is not pleased to have His children disorderly, to have their lives marred by defects and their religious experience crippled, their growth in grace dwarfed, because they persist in cherishing hereditary and cultivated deficiencies in wrong habits that will be imitated by others and thus be perpetuated. If the grace of Christ cannot remedy these defects, what then constitutes transformation of character?” TMK 157.2 – 157.4