*stolen from a blog I read a long time ago - my apologies - i didn't intend to repost it, so i didn't save the info on who wrote it... but i've been meditating on it a lot lately.
indulge in the Word with me, will you?
"Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 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 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 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. If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world" (James 1:22-27). How often do we ignore this instruction, myself included? So many of us wander through life wondering what God's purpose is for us, wondering what his call is for our lives, and not doing anything while we're waiting, for fear that it may not be God's will for us. If I may be so bold, I'd like to suggest that this is his call specifically for your life. "Do not merely listen to the word.... Do what it says." Just because we don't have that one thing that we feel God is leading us towards doesn't mean we can be active for Christ and for his kingdom until we do find that one thing.
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