Life Principle #3
God's Word is an immovable anchor in times of storm.
Life Examples
Ezra: Applying God's Word
Ezra is a great example of what commitment to applying God’s Word can do for both an individual and a nation.
The Persian king Artaxerxes gave Ezra permission to travel from Babylon to his ancestral homeland in Jerusalem. As a godly priest, Ezra felt compelled to improve the spiritual condition of the remnant of his people, and so he worked diligently to bring about several religious and cultural reforms among his discouraged countrymen.
Ezra’s life demonstrates the importance not merely of learning and knowing the Word of God, but also of practicing how to regularly apply it in daily life. Because God had put him in a position of spiritual authority, Ezra also did everything he could think of to pass on to others what he had learned in his Bible study. Ezra wasn’t just a hearer of God’s Word; he was also an effective and deeply committed doer of it (see James 1:22).
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