06/07/2026
A Message For Today: Doing the word, that’s what counts.
In the book of James, in the first chapter we are told to be doers of the word of God, not just hearers. It’s like sitting in church every Sunday listening to what is being said but never changing your lifestyle. Month after month, year after year, the word is being explained so that you can understand, yet nothing has changed. That person is a hearer of the word only. That was not the Lords plan for His people. That person sits in church for years thinking that the Lord is pleased with them just because they show up on Sunday. They sing in the choir. They serve as ushers, they give God a couple hours every week. The rest of the week you wouldn’t believe that they go to church at all. The scripture says that kind of person is deceiving themselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer of the word, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. They sit in church week after week and the word of God causes them to see what kind of person they really are, but as soon as they walk out the door they forget what kind of man they saw in the mirror. Gods word is that mirror that reveals to us who we really are, even when we are not willing to except what we see. The word of God calls those who forget so quickly, hearer only of the word of God. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this will be blessed in what he does. When we look in the mirror of the word of God, see ourselves as we are seen by God and change, God blesses what we do according to how we live. The mirror that we see on Sunday morning should cause a change in our lives. We should have a desire to keep ourselves unspotted from the world. There is a difference between righteousness and unrighteousness. Especially when we serve a God who has declared that He is Holy. Who requires us also to be holy. Don’t forget who you see when you look in the mirror of His word.