Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
James 1:22-24
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.
Are you a doer or a hearer? You can know your way around the scriptures, retelling the stories and parroting things that Jesus said… but knowing is only half of it. To make it anything more than knowledge, put God’s Word into practice. Love your enemies, treat others as you want to be treated, love the Lord your God with all your heart. Loving the unlovable and honoring a God we can’t always see isn’t easy. It goes against your nature as a human being. But thankfully, you don’t have to rely on your humanness to make you more like Christ; that’s something He does from the inside out, when you allow Him to come into your heart and start making real changes.