"Do not just listen to God's Word. You must DO WHAT GOD SAYS! Otherwise you are only fooling yourself."
Are you an obedient person? As a child did you do what you were told to do? As an adult when you are told to do something by someone in authority, do you do it? As a pupil when a teacher tells you about a concept or idea, do you integrate that into your thoughts and actions? When your parents told you to do something to protect you from harm, did you just listen or did you in fact do what you were told? If you fail to obey and do not listen to wise counsel then you are living an illusion and the results are predictable. When you look in a mirror you see an illusion, not reality and when you fail to listen and then apply what you hear and are told, you are living an illusion and not reality. Are you just fooling yourself by not applying what you hear?
God does not want us to just hear His Word. We must put His Words into action. Be a doer of the Word and not just a hearer only! If we do not obey God then we are just fooling ourselves and others, but we can never fool God! When we refuse to listen and then obey the Word of God we are only punishing ourselves. The result of disobeying our earthly father and our Heavenly Father are predictable and never good. We make the choice to obey or not and we must suffer the consequences of our actions. Bad choices lead to bad results and disobeying God is the worst choice of all. It means you are separating yourself from your Heavenly Father and that condemns you.
We must be who we say we are. We can not fake our lives forever or at all in God's sight. If you are a fraud and foolish enough to listen to God's Words and yet never do what they say you are just fooling yourself. Do you really think that you can fool God? If you are a child of God then you must listen and be obedient to His Word. After you listen and learn you have to implement and put into action what God has taught you. If you fail to do this you are deceiving yourself and those who have taught you. God is our heavenly parent and loves us as His child. He wants the best for us. We must trust Him and listen to Him and obey Him. In short we should always DO WHAT GOD SAYS!
