Coffee on the Beach

Have you ever gone to the beach? Towel-check, water-check, surfboards-check, sunscreen-check. You get everything ready and checked off your list. Everybody gets in the car and heads out. Beautiful day, surf is amazing, and its just gonna be an amazing day. Your feeling brave and think your tanner than you really are, so as the sunscreen is getting passed around your like,"Pass, I'm gonna get a good tan today!" The day is amazing, you catch some good waves, have an amazing lunch, take a nap on the beach and its just an all around good day. You wake up about 2 a.m. the next morning with the worst sunburn you can imagine. Your body hurts, your head hurts and most of all you just feel stupid as you flash back when your friend was passing the sunblock your way. You know everything about sunscreen, how it works, when to use it, why to use it and what it actual does. But you know the crazy thing about it, not really crazy, just practical? I can know all of that stuff but without application its useless...
Now think about it...how many times have you done this with Gods word! James 1:²² "But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves." You know what it says, but your like, "I'm just gonna get a good tan today" We think that merely avoiding it for a day wont make any difference. But the truth is we wake up as soon as hours later in regret, in pain and knowing exactly where we went wrong. Then the next day, its written all over your face.
You have been there, the next day when everybody else put sunscreen on and your the one looking like a lobster! Not only is it hurting you but everybody can tell your burned. Same with Christians, when your not living what God says you are the one thats emo, depressed and everybody can tell that you got some funk going on(at least discerning people can).
Ephesians 6:13 "Be prepared. You're up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it's all over but the shouting you'll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You'll need them throughout your life." Its so important that we learn and understand Gods word, but just as important as knowing and understanding is applying it to our own lives. You don't want to be "that guy" carrying around a bottle of alo-vera asking "can you get my back for me please?"