So I am reading James right now. I have fallen in love with the words of the Word put before me. They are so deep and so true. I really just can't get past it. I have read Chapter 1 over and over and find something beautiful every time. The last time I read it, this is what stood out like a sore thumb to me.
"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."
The words speak so much truth into my life right now. Not only do I need to hear to word set before me and read it, but live it out daily. This is as bad as looking in the mirror then not knowing what I look like a second later. How terrible. To me this is saying, you read the Word, and then as soon as it is closed you go on living my own life as pleased.
The reason this hits home is because I know that I do this regularly. I'll read and be in the Word, but as soon as a hard time comes along I forget His wonderful promises.
Praying to not only know his Word and promises, but also live it out and believe them.
