Be Still And Know

READ: James 1:23-24 NLT 'Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.' I love the way James writes but I’m not sure he would make easy company. He is so incredibly blunt. If the Christian faith doesn’t get translated into daily action then he wants nothing to do with it. Here he makes the obvious but powerful point that there would be no point in looking in a mirror if it didn’t cause you to do something as a result. If you learn that your hair looks a complete mess then action is required! Reading the Bible is not like reading any other book. Other books might be entertaining, interesting or informative but they will rarely change our lives. The Bible is one of the principal ways in which God has chosen to speak to us, and so whenever we read it we need to ask the question, “Lord what are you saying to me?” If we merely read the Bible as a beautiful work of lit