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How should I respond?
Application involves two steps
- How the truths discovered should affect your behavior.
- Putting those same truths into practice in our daily lives.
Examine yourself
- Look for application in the light of your own personal life.
Relate the passage to your life
- Summarize truths that seem to apply to you.
- Decide if they have some timely and lasting value.
- Look for ways that the text applies to your daily life and to the lives of others.
Meditate on the passage
- Pick out the passage or verse that speaks to your heart and that would have a lasting benefit to you and to others.
- Memorize the significant verses.
Practice what you have learned
- Write down several points of interest that can be put into practice in your daily life.
The grass withers,
the flower fades,
But the word of
our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:8