SCRIPTURE

Studied: James 1

OBSERVATION

James 1:22-25 ~ Obey God’s message! Don’t fool yourselves by just listening to it. If you hear the message and don’t obey it, you are like people who stare at themselves in a mirror and forget what they look like as soon as they leave. But you must never stop looking at the perfect law that sets you free. God will bless you in everything you do, if you listen and obey, and don’t just hear and forget.

APPLICATION

It may not seem important to repeat, but I must! If we look in the mirror, take an honest look at ourselves, then we turn around and walk out of the door still remembering who we are, then why would we be foolish enough to listen to the voice of God through His holy Word and not obey it? God, our Creator, says in this passage that we are only fooling ourselves. Let me be bold enough to say that we have hardened ourselves to the wonderful grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Another passage of scripture says that we have seared our consciences as with a hot iron (