Hearer or Doer?
Good intentions are just that...good...intentions. They are good thoughts about doing something good, but intentions does not indicate action or doing. I wake up every day and have many good intentions, but don't always get "intentional" about following through on them. As Christians, God calls us to be "doers" of the word, not just "hearers."
In James 1 God reminds us what "true religion" looks like: "visiting orphans and widows in their trouble and keeping oneself unspotted from the world." The closer my relationship with the Lord gets, the easier it is to "lose my spots." I want to be pleasing to Him and frankly, by His mercy, I am losing interest in things of the world.
In James 1 God reminds us what "true religion" looks like: "visiting orphans and widows in their trouble and keeping oneself unspotted from the world." The closer my relationship with the Lord gets, the easier it is to "lose my spots." I want to be pleasing to Him and frankly, by His mercy, I am losing interest in things of the world.
Things of this world...leather shop in Italy. SOS Lord!
James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
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