“IMPLANTED WORD!”

James 1:19-21                               (ESV)

“19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the “IMPLANTED WORD”, which is able to save your souls.”

These days it seems that there is an unlimited number of items vying for our attention.  The enemy is doing everything he can to get our focus on anything except JESUS, for HE is the ONLY ANSWER to this world’s chaotic problems!  Even (and sometimes ESPECIALLY) when we are trying to get alone with GOD, the enemy will bombard our minds with a number of worldly distractions to break the fellowship we have with our Heavenly Father.   Satan can’t compete with the peace and joy that comes from ABOVE, so he attempts to keep us so busy with things he deceives us into believing that are important to our existence?  

Only by having the “IMPLANTED WORD” stored up in our hearts and minds do we have a prayer of living for THE LORD.  Psalms 119:11 says “I have stored up YOUR Word in my heart, that I might not sin against YOU.”  John 1:14 says “...the Word became flesh and dwelt among us....”.  Since JESUS is the WORD, shouldn’t we readily understand that the “IMPLANTED WORD” can save our souls???  

Do you recognize why the enemy tries to keep us so busy now?  The clutter and noise of “this world” is just one of the tools satan uses to prevent us from celebrating WHO we need to be Worshipping!  The “IMPLANTED WORD” will NOT return void (Isaiah 55:21), so the enemy wants to prevent us from seeking the “IMPLANTED WORD”.  

Even though I am “the chief of sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15) and fail HIM daily, my prayer is that the “IMPLANTED WORD” will spring forth from my life and JESUS will be made famous!