James 1:21-22 … Welcoming the Word (10/29/16)
“Welcome with meekness the implanted Word that has the Power to save your Souls … Be Doers of that Word, and not mere hearers who deceive themselves.” ~ James (James 1:21-22)
Ahhh, God bless “James the Just” … It is no wonder that Jesus held him in such incredibly high regard (see Gospel of Thomas 1:12), as he was obviously one of the few disciples who seemed to truly “get it”; one of the very few who understood that it was not by worshiping Jesus himself that one could be saved – that Salvation came not from a mere mental belief “in Christ” or a mere verbal profession of “faith”, but rather (as Jesus himself so often and so consistently said throughout the Gospels) that Salvation comes to us solely through acts of selfless Love – especially those acts of Love given when we least wish to give them; especially those acts of Love given to those deemed “least deserving” of the same …
Indeed (in-Deed!), James knew that we are not to be mere doers of the words of Paul, but that we are rather to be Enliveners of The Word of Jesus Christ instead!
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