James 1:22-25 - Geneva Bible
22 And be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man, that beholdeth his natural face in a glass.
24 For when he hath considered himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what manner of one he was.
25 But who so looketh in the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, shall be blessed in his deed.
Thank you Lord for keeping me safe and giving me another day. I ask only that You go before me and protect me from the arrows of Satan, and to open my heart and mind to Your word, amen
Brethren:
So often we hear of people talking the walk, but instead we should be walking the walk. Be doers of God's word – Love Him, love others. Frame all of your actions, deeds and words within His words and righteousness. For then you will truly become the children of God. RP. Woitowitz Sr.
“The doer is he who from the heart embraces God’s word and testifies by his life that he really believes, according to the saying of Christ, for he shews by the fruits what that implanting is, before mentioned. We must further observe, that faith with all its works is included by James, yea, faith especially, as it is the chief work which God requires from us. The import of the whole is, that we ought to labor that the word of the Lord should strike root in us, so that it may afterwards fructify.
Heavenly doctrine is indeed a mirror in which God presents himself to our view; but so that we may be transformed unto his image, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 3:18. But here he speaks of the external glance of the eye, not of the vivid and efficacious meditation which penetrates into the heart. It is a striking comparison, by which he briefly intimates, that a doctrine merely heard and not received inwardly into the heart avails nothing, because it soon vanishes away.” - John Calvin
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