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I am currently reading through one of the YouVersion bible app plans by The Bible Project. I highly recommend The Bible Project - they bring in a lot of history with the text so the Bible comes to life! This morning I read Romans 2-3 and had a few thoughts on how our actions should reflect our knowledge of God's truth.

In these chapters, Paul was trying to deal with the tension between Jews and non-Jews who had different ways of living out their faith in God and Jesus. These chapters tell us we need to be "circumcised" in our hearts and that God has no partiality between people. What will save us - show God that we belong to him is:

  1. Our knowledge of his law - because this is how we know what is sin, AND
  2. Our actions - because this will show that our hearts and soul believe in Jesus and that we want to follow him.

Paul's words on the conflict he saw are true today for Christians. This message by our guest Pastor, Ivan Tait, is particularly convicting. Our community has a lot of people who understand what God wants of us, but our actions do not always reflect our belief in his way of thinking and believing and acting. I heard a message by Pastor Tait's daughter, Bethany, in which she emphasized that we are a beacon of Jesus. When we walk and talk, we radiate Jesus and call others to him.

So we must ask ourselves, is God's truth and our belief in Jesus radiating through us? Do we have the Bible written in our mind and seen through our actions? If not, God can give us a new heart that allows us to have a revelation of him. His revelation of how peaceful it is to live according to God's best for our lives is wonderful!

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