Devotion

Psalms 119:45  "I will walk in freedom, for I have devoted myself to your commandments."

The word works if we will work the word. The psalmists said "I will walk in freedom, because I have devoted myself to your word". The more devoted you are to the word of God, the more freedom you will walk in. There are two levels of devotion that are required to produce the freedom of Christ in your life.

The first level of devotion is to know the word. If you are not devoted to spending time in the word of God on a daily bases then your freedom will be short lived. This devotion includes studying the word, listening to the preached or taught word and memorizing the word. All three areas are key to a devoted life in the word of God, and all three are key to keeping you growing in the revelation and understanding of who God is and what he wants to do in your life.

The second level of devotion is to live the word, to do what the word says to do. If you never transition to this level of devotion, then you will become religious because you know the word, but you will still be unrighteous because you are not doing what it says.
James1:22 says that if you are a hearer of the word and not a doer of the word, you are deceived. The power and freedom of the word is activated in your life when you do what the word says to do. It is this level of devotion to the word, that causes us to make decisions based upon what the word says we should do. When we operate at this level of devotion, we also operate on a new level of freedom.

The word of God, creates boundaries like the banks of a river. These banks keep the river moving, focused and life giving. When you remove the banks of the river you get a swamp, a place filled with stagnant water and death. Devotion to the word keeps the banks of our river in place and allows us to experience the freedom of Christ, keep moving forward, stay focused on God's will for our lives and causes us to be a life giving believer that carries the life of God every where that we go.