Wednesday Bible Blurb Think Act Do Be 9 18 2024
Think. Act. Do. Be. This kind of sounds like a song. Doobie doobie doo. Then there is Scoobie doo and in the real old days there was “yabba dabba doo”. I wonder if Fred Flintstone minds us quoting him after all these years? What do I mean by the words, “Think,” “Act,” “Do” and “Be”? These four words are simply a word play to remind us throughout the day to keep God in mind at whatever task we are doing.
Think right. The most thought-provoking part of the sermon on the mount is the part about us and how we are to think. Don’t think of murder. (Matt. 5:21 All Scripture quotations are NKJV, unless otherwise noted). Don’t think of adultery. (Matt. 5:27). What we allow into our mind is very important. Murder and adultery are things we should not think of doing. Jesus then switches to something we should think about doing. We are to “love our enemies” (Matt. 5:43). How we think and what we put into our mind can lead to our heart being either for God or against God. Paul said, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 2:5). We need to think right like Jesus.
Act right. The apostle John, best friend of Jesus and caretaker of Mary the mother of Jesus was very clear on us acting right. Many times, John wrote of sin, what it is and how to avoid it. By avoiding sin, we will be acting in accordance with the will of God. “Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.” (I John 3:4). The King James version puts it this way, “…for sin is the transgression of the law.” “And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments…” (I John 3:22a). “This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. (II John 1:6a). At the very end of the Bible, John was still proclaiming His commandments, “Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life.” (Rev. 22:14). Keep God’s wonderful ten commandments, this will help us to act right like Jesus.
Do right. God’s Word is full of examples of serving others as it is the right thing to do. Jesus, on His last night of life made this point perfectly clear, “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:12-13).James, the brother of Jesus carried on with this concept of loving others. “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:27). The word “pure” stands out as so clean as to reflect the image of God. We need to do right like Jesus.
Be right. God gave us His only begotten Son (John 3:16). He justifies us through His grace and His blood (Eph. 2:8; Hebrews 9:11-15). We serve our God in all He asks and he is justifying us and giving us His kingdom as a part of His family (Rom. 8:14-17). For then we shall be right, reconciled to God and back to the sinless state of creation. He is bringing us back to His image and likeness through the process of justification. We will be like Him (I John 3:2) and see Him as He is. We need to be right like Jesus.
Four simple little words, Think, Act, Do, Be. We can all use these throughout the day to stay right with God. Yabba Dabba Doo.
