Did I Hear You Correctly?

 Theodore Roosevelt was an outdoorsman. He'd rather be hiking in the woods or hunting in the savannah than at some gala.  But as president of the United States it was part of his job to host dignities and do meet and greets.

  What Roosevelt hated most about these session is how even when speaking pleasantries and greeting one another, he found most folks paid little attention to

what was actually being said. To amuse himself, Roosevelt would greet people with a smile and exclaim “I murdered my grandmother this morning”.  Most people never reacted to the statement.  But one diplomat did. After the remark he leaned in and whispered to the President, “I’m sure she had it coming to her”.

  It’s not just diplomats that hear but don’t listen. People do that with the word of God all the time. You can tell because they don’t react to what it is telling them. It might pass into their ears but that doesn’t make any change in their lives.

But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.

James 1:25

How are we reacting to the word of God? Does in change us or pass over us? Do we react to it or just repeat it?

Does God’s word make it past our ears and into our hearts?