Want to start living out your faith in real life? Ask yourself these 4 questions to turn knowledge of Scripture into daily, intentional Christlike choices.
You know the Word. You’ve studied it, memorized verses, and maybe even led Bible studies.
But sometimes, despite knowing Scripture, life doesn’t look much different.
You want to reflect Jesus in your everyday choices, but how do you take what you know and live it out?
Knowing Scripture is foundational, but faith is not just head knowledge – it’s heart transformation expressed in real life. James 1:22 reminds us:
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”
So how do we bring the Word off the page and into our messy, ordinary lives?
Here are three practical ways:
If you stick around here, you’ll often hear me talk about bringing the “words off the page and into your life”.
One way I recommend doing that, and have my kids do it too, is to take the passage of Scripture you’re in for the day and pick something you can pray for over your life.
Sometimes this will be easy, and other times it will be harder to pick something, but every time – it will be worth it.
For example:
James 3:14 says, “But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.”
So you could pray and ask God to reveal any jealousy or selfish ambition in your heart.
Or you could pray and ask God to help you not desire selfish ambition, but to desire what God desires for your life.
See how you’re taking the words off the page and praying them over your life?
Praying Scripture is very powerful and this is one great way to approach it.
So now that you’ve picked one thing to pray over yourself, the next step is to choose an actionable step from the passage you read that day, or you could do one passage per week, etc.
Choose the frequency that best fits you in your current season of life.
For example:
Ephesians 4:32 says, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”
So an actionable step might be challenging yourself to say one kind thing to someone today.
Or maybe God put someone on your heart that you need to forgive and today you’r going to choose to forgive.
These are actionable, doable, and practical steps you can take to start living out the Bible.
Action is nothing without reflection.
If we don’t reflect on the action we took, and how it went, how can we know what we need to do different? better? and so on?
With that said, the third way you can bring the words off the page is to journal about the action you’re taking.
For this exercise you want to be a good question asker.
Think back on your day and ask things like:
Reflection helps transform knowledge into a lifestyle of imitation.
Scripture is not a checklist – it’s a guide to living intentionally, humbly, and faithfully.
Bringing it off the page means taking small, consistent steps, noticing where Jesus’ character is growing in you, and reflecting Him in your words, habits, and relationships.
Your turn: What’s one action you’ll take this week to imitate Jesus and live out the Bible in real life? Comment below – I’d love to hear how God is showing you ways to live it out.
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um convicted lol im gonna try to say one kind thing today