Reading the Bible can be mentally challenging. Not because the word of God is not truth, but because we have so much mental infrastructure that is not true. The challenge is, we have agreed with our internal mental infrastructure so when we read truth, even though we know its the truth, we do not agree with it unto action. Deception is so deep seeded, so deeply rooted in us, it literally does not move even when we read the word of God, which is truth.

How many sermons have we heard and done nothing with what we heard? How many bible studies have we attended, but still nothing changed in us when it comes to internal infrastructure. We are masters of justification and then wonder why we struggle with the same sins, the same attitudes, the same issues. We have been seeded by culture and it is deception. How do I know, because we read something in the word of God and even though we like what it says, we don’t agree with it, so we do nothing with what we just read.

James 1:22-25 says, “But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.”

Humility is not a one time thing, it is a character quality, it means we remain teachable. We are so secure in what little we know about God, so we stop learning. When it comes to technology, we are out buying the latest gadget; when it comes to food, we are on the latest fad; when it comes to the news, we don’t miss a story. We change with culture, but we remain the same with what we know about God. My friends, we must be teachable, for what God is doing is beyond anything we have ever seen or heard before. If you are not humble, you will resist the move of God because of your internal infrastructure that thinks it knows all it needs to about God. Beware, God is going to offend us if we are not humble and teachable.