Moment of Meditation: Practice What You Preach (Matthew 23:2-3)

''The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice (Matthew 23:2-3).''

Jesus says to practice what you preach. Do what you believe is faithful to God's holy, inspired, infallible Word.

Many believe that preaching and practicing have nothing to do with each other. That you can sit in church and go through worship and then live how you want to live. Just as long as you've given God His hour of the week. The rest of the week belongs to you. This is hypocrisy. How can you do what you profess to be evil? How can you ignore the evils professed around you? Because you don't want to be an outcast? "Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head" (Matthew 8:20). Jesus was an outcast because He practiced what He preached.

Are you in a church that teaches in line with everything you believe? If so, praise God for that blessing. If not, why are you there? Family tradition? Marital blackmail? Is it because you're working to get things changed to the way they were? Is it because you don't really care? Then why bother going to church at all?

Practice what you preach. You preach what you believe. So practice it. If you're in a church that doesn't align with your beliefs, find a church that does. Stand up for your beliefs and do not compromise. Jesus says, "Everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 10:32-33). Amen.