Let’s pray for God’s help to understand, love, and obey. They ought to do so, James argued, because to do so leads to blessing, while failing to do so is total folly. Specifically, the heart of this passage is a call for God’s people to obey the Word of God no matter how counterintuitive it may be in light of their current circumstances. In our passage for this morning, in calling his readers to remain on a particular stretch of the path of godliness, James focused a good deal of effort on describing a ditch he desperately wanted his readers to avoid (perhaps because they were already in it) and the benefits of staying on the right path. Grace ,virtually every aspect of the Christian life is like the roads of my childhood there is a godly path to walk in faith, with deep, dangerous ditches on both sides. I remember sitting there for a moment staring at the tops of the trees across the street thinking, “We’re in trouble.” As you may have guessed, instead of coolly sliding around like cars do on TV, ours simply veered straight into the ditch.
For reasons I still don’t understand, our roads typically had no shoulders and deep ditches on both sides. This is probably a good time to mention another unique geographical feature of my hometown. To our underutilized teenage brains, this seemed like an awesome idea.
Since we were out in the middle of nowhere, instead of continuing on to turn around in the next driveway, my buddy decided the best way to reverse direction was to go backwards as fast as he could and then turn the wheel sharply so that the front would slide around. The car I was in got turned around and ended up heading the wrong way. One night in particular, I remember a group of friends driving around in two different cars.
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As you can probably imagine, the combination of these things often left us board and free to wander into unwatched trouble. Frequently, my friends and I would pass time by driving around looking for stuff to do. On top of those things, there wasn’t much in the way of businesses, restaurants, or things to keep us entertained as kids. There were lots of dirt roads and houses were usually quite a ways apart. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. James 1:22-25 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
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