Song #1012.1- Do Not Merely Listen
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James wrote a collection of practical instructions, to God’s people scattered all over the world. This included wisdom and Christian attitudes and conduct. James emphasizes the importance of actions, as well as faith, in the practice of Christian religion.
Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry (James 1:19), for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires (James 1:20). Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you (James 1:21). Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says (James 1:22). Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror (James 1:23), and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like (James 1:24). But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does (James 1:25). If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless (James 1:26). Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world (James 1:27).
Thought for today: when you know what is truth, you will then recognize what is false.
Thought for the future: being in a church doesn’t make you a Christian, like being in a garage doesn’t make you a car. Where will you spend your eternity?
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