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Stop Fooling yourself!
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According to a news paper report, the police prosecuted a New Zealander man 32 times over a 5 year period. Why?, For not wearing his seatbelt. Though his violations were costing him money, he refused to buckle up. So he resorted to deception fashioning a strap that would hang over his shoulder and make it appear he was wearing a seatbelt. He got away with it for a while, but his deception came to an end when he was involved in an accident that thrust him into the steering wheel and took his life. In his attempt to deceive the law, the man was only fooling himself.
In (James 1: 22) the opening chapter, taught his readers how to avoid the land mine of self-deception. In order to avoid it he encouraged them to be hearers of God’s word.
James understood that when they heard the word it had the potential to transform their attitudes and actions. God, through the scriptures, would get to the root of things. He would treat them as they are and not as they pretend them to be.
James also encouraged this congregation to be doers of the word (James 1: 25). According to James hearing God’s Word was good, but it wasn’t enough. They had to do what it said. As the mirror of God’s Word revealed what was out of place in their lives, they were to align their lives with the truth. To hear God’s Word and not practice it led to self-deception. However, to be hearers and doers of it led to blessing.
Hearing and doing what the scriptures says reveals what lives are really like, not what we pretend them to be. (James 1: 26), and it helps us to avoid deceiving ourselves.
Let’s practice hearing and doing what the bible says and experience the joy and blessing that accompanies obedience…..
