The word of God

James 1: 22 - Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. v. 23 - 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. v. 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. v. 25 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.

Christian can be the most deceived people in the world. The reason is not because we don’t know the word or what God wants from us. We listen to the preaching of the word and the Holy Spirit also speaks and confirms the word in our heart. We respond to the altar call.

The problem is we did not continue to do what we had responded at the altar. We make up a lot of excuses as well as taking pride in our disobedience to God’s word. We think just because we acknowledged our failure to obey God, we are being honest. We think that makes it alright and we have no desire to submit to God’s word by obedience either.

The word of God tells us that we are deceiving ourselves. We know it too because we know in our spirits, we are bound. We keep deceiving ourselves by the services we do in Church and we are faithful every Sunday in Church attendance. We listen to the word and we know more and more about the word of God. The cycle of activities is repeated every week and we deceive ourselves more and more.

The preaching gets hotter when God has to speak louder and louder because we are not listening. We become offended by the servant of God who faithfully discharge the word of God to us. We don’t like what we look like by looking at the mirror of God’s word. Instead of changing how we look by being obedient to God’s word, we dislike the person who is holding the mirror for us to see. How deceive can we be?

Are you seeing clearer how you really look like? Isn’t that the purpose of listening to God’s word?. You can always change your look in the mirror by obeying the word that gives you freedom and brings blessing to you. It will really change you on the inside with the peace, joy and love of God.