What is your response?

If you were told that if you did certain things with a proper attitude it would result in Life to you and Health to all your flesh...how would you respond?????

Proverbs 4:20-22
My child, pay attention to what I say.
Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.

I cannot seem to express the intensity and urgency that is within me to convince Christians to follow the counsel found in the verses above.

Pay attention to God's Word. Mark well, give it regard, give heed. As if to say, "I want to rub this in! Pay Attention!!! What I have to tell you is crucial for your well-being, for your life as a whole! Hear me now!!!

Listen carefully....hear, listen with attention and interest, give heed to what God says. This is important stuff I have to tell you. If you will listen with ears to hear it will be valuable to your life!

Don't lose sight of God's Word! Keep your eyes looking at what God says. Don't be distracted by other things. The purpose of distractions are to get you to change your focus and cause you to be drawn away from God's Word.

Keep God's Word. Protect his Word. Put a Hedge around it. Take charge of His Word. Guard it. You do not want His Word to get away from you! Hold on tightly to what He says.

Let His Word penetrate down into your heart. Keep them in the center of your thoughts, your heart, your mind. Don't let your guard down and allow your thoughts wander away from the Truth.

For God's Words are Life to you......they are your fountain of life. They are your sustenance,  maintenance and energy. God's Word is your welfare and happiness in the king's presence as consisting of earthly happiness and joyfulness combined (often) with spiritual blessedness.

To those who find them....You must look to find. Search for it as of something lost that you really need to find. Explore and thoroughly find out what His Word teaches you. This is not a casual walk. You are searching to find something of great value. Unto those that find them; i.e. to those who by effort get possession of and procure (obtain something especially by care or effort); they are life and......

health to all your body.....healing, health, remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding. From rapha'; properly, curative, i.e. Literally of disease (concretely) a medicine,  or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity (pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters).

So, what is your response regarding wisdoms counsel today?

How well are you paying attention?
Are you distracted by the things around you or are you really keeping God's Word attentively regarding every issue, every thought and every challenge you face. Keep His Word front and center... asking "what does God's Word instruct me regarding this issue?"

How are your listening to His Word? Casually, inconsistently, or determined to hear and understand with dedication.

Are you protecting God's Word? Are you being a guard that would receive praise for his excellent work at keeping the Word safe from escaping you or being stolen from you?

Are you letting His Word penetrate deep down inside of you? Is His Word such a necessary part of You, that it is God's Word, His counsel, that comes out from you in the midst of a trial?

When you face an issue what is your response? "We'll never make it!" Or "God will make a way!" Do you say, "I sure hope I don't get this virus!" Or do you say, "My God is my refuge and He protects me from every deadly pestilence!" Then do you Guard His Word when the waves get worse?????

Do you realize that how you respond to God's Word directly influences your life and the health of all your flesh?

Please take God's instruction seriously and be a dedicated student of the Word of God and be a Doer of what God teaches us, not a hearer only. If you do, it will be Life to you and Health to all your flesh. God can't lie. It has to be so!

Psalm 119:16
I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget Your Word.