Today we read 1 Kings 7, 2 Chronicles 4, Psalm 98, and Romans 2.
In Romans Paul is talking about how we are all in the same boat--the boat of sin and seperation from God. Some, the practicing Jews, knew God's law but still struggled to follow it. Some, the nonbelieving Gentiles, may not have known as much but were still responsible for the sin that seperated them from God. Paul speaks to the Jews and tells them that if they know the law and can teach the law, they must live by it as well.
Notice how it is written in Romans 2.17-21a- But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God 18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19 and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself?
Now this truth speaks to the churchgoer who proclaims to be a Christian as well. A few things to think about it: If you know the will of God and say that one needs to follow it, do you follow it?
If you give people Biblical counsel and tell them to go to the Word, do you follow what the Word says for your life? If you teach, instruct, guide others in God's Word, do you practice what you preach?
One of my children asked me one time after church, Daddy, why does one of my teachers tell me not to talk in church and then I see her talking?
Huh....What do you say to such a question?
There are much bigger fish to fry in life than a whisper in the church, but the point was well made to me. Let's live out God's Word, apply it to our lives, share it with others, and thrive in it for our own sake, for other's sakes, and for the Kingdom sakes.
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