James 1:19-26
I love when you read something and it just smacks you right in the face.
In a good way.
Well, not in a good way necessarily.
I mean, there's reading that you do that is an unfriendly e-mail or a drama filled blog or a vengeful newspaper article or a "you suck" campaign.
Or there's reading that's like "reality check".
"But prove yourselves doers of the Word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. But one who looks intently at the Perfect Law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless."
*slap* *slap*
It's the whole "you can talk the Talk, but can you walk the Walk?" idea.
A worthless religion. That means it's... Useless. Good-for-nothing. Valueless.
If you read the Book and listen to the sermons and sing the songs.. But don't live what you hear and learn... Then that's what your religion is considered. Why spend time every Sunday and Tuesday at church if you're not going to live it? Then that's a worthless, useless, good-for-nothing use of your time.
We live in a country where we're lucky enough to be able to worship freely, so we should take advantage of it.
