You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God’s righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing. (James 1:19-25, NRSV)
Have you ever done that?
Looked in the mirror and walked away or turned away and forgotten what you looked like?
I honestly never have…
But I can honestly say that I have heard the word of God and not done it…
And I think we could all say that if we were honest.
We are hearers of the word and doers of the word that are easy or convenient for us to do. When it comes to the hard stuff we shy away.
We say that is for some other part of the body and not me.
But we are called to be followers of Jesus and must hear the word and do it.
When it is convenient and when it isn’t!
We must show the world what it means to be loved by Jesus and to follow Him.
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