Saying and Acting

Psalm 52: 1-4

“1 Why do you boast, O mighty one, of mischief done against the godly? All day long 2 you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery. 3 You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth.Selah 4 You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.”

King David was a man who claimed to know and love God but who acted in a very different way with Bathsheba and her husband.

One of the many reasons that young people give for not attending church today is that they think the church is full of hypocrites, who say one thing but do something much different.

People may claim that they love God and Christ.  But their actions may speak otherwise.  They may actually worship and praise God while plotting evil in their hearts against their fellow human beings.

Let us love God, and let it be expressed not only in our words, 

but also in our actions.

“…live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or am absent and hear about you, I will know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with one mind for the faith of the gospel,” (Philippians 1:27)

May the love of Christ be with you,

Rev. Eric Lanier (Retired)