Digging Deeper James 1:21

Points to Ponder

James 1:21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Points to ponder:
Over and over again in Scripture when we are told to put off something, we are also told what to put on in its place.

Ephesians 4: 22-24 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:25 put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor

Ephesians 4:28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands,

Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up.

Colossians 3:8-10 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

In our meditation verse this week, we are called to put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and instead to receive with meekness the implanted word.

Implanted word. I have been thinking about that phrase. Implanted word.

Colossians 3: 16-17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

How does the Word change us? Does it dwell in us richly? Richly? How do we receive the Word? I believe next week's meditation verses will expound on that.

Blessings my friend,
Diane