James 1: 19-27(MSG) Act on what you Hear
"Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So, throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let your gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are
a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like. But whoever catches a glimpse of the revealed counsel of God—the free life!—even out of the corner of his eye, and sticks with it, is no distracted scatterbrain but a man or woman of action. That person will find delight and affirmation in the action. Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world".
As a Christian, how easy is it, at times, to be angry and express your feelings, mouth operating before brain engages? Does this reading stop you though from dealing with situations by speaking directly in a controlled manner. How many times has the message gone in one ear at out the other or we have gone along with it but in truth “when all was said and done there was more said than done?
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