A young lady shared with me how much she enjoyed the sermons that she had heard. Naturally, I asked her how much she had put them into practice. She was quite dumbfounded by the question. I then told her that sermons are not songs. Songs are to be listened to and enjoyed. Sermons, on the other hand, are to be listened to and carried out.

Another friend of mine was quite amazing at telling how certain “great” people run their businesses– their sacrifices and their successes. However, when it came to putting all those lessons into practice, it was all talk and no action. It is as good as not learning anything. It would have been better to have saved his time on reading about the pathway of success of all these people.

Our walk with the Lord is one of putting it to work. It is not just lip service, and we all know that. But how often we give excuses that it cannot be done. One common excuse is that it is the ideal and we are slowly going towards it. Great! But is it really the case? More often than not, it is just a bad excuse.
To be frank, if you had been to church for more than a year, you would have heard more than fifty-two sermons. With your quiet time everyday, you would have learnt more than 365 lessons from the Word. If we would have put about ten per cent to work, that would be about forty plus actionable items. That would make any of us a wonderful Christian.

However, it is tough and painful to change. So the average Christian takes the easier way out – become religious but not spiritual. Listen to dozen of sermons within the week, discuss about issues that sound high and mighty but avoid any change in lifestyle.
God will not be mocked nor fooled by our religiosity. He wants to see our lives lived in accordance to the Holy Word. Our rewards in future is based on how we lived that life worthy of the gospel, not how many fantastic sermons we had heard.

God bless!