"Don't Forget To Do"

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, 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. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. James 1:22-25

Now here is the question? Who seriously looks in the mirror and goes away and forgets what he looks like? We all  look in the mirror on a daily basis. We all know how a mirror works. It reflects our image back at us. We use that information to do what needs doing. We fix our hair, our make-up, and our clothes. We make sure that we are presentable to the world and it is something we do every single day.

This verse is using something in the natural that we do everyday to reveal to us a spiritual truth. That truth is simple.  The Word is a mirror that reflects. It reflects God in relation to man. It speaks to us and reveals what needs fixing so that we become  presentable to God.

James tells us to be a doer of the word.  We don't look in the mirror in the natural and walk away and forget what we look like. Its not something we realistically forget. James is telling us that if we don't treat the Word of God the same way we treat our mirror, then we are deceiving ourselves. Every time that we read the Word, God  will reveal truth to us. When we don't apply or do what it says we are forgetting what we look like.

James gives us more than a warning here, he also gives us a promise.  He tells us that if we will look into the perfect law of liberty and we do what it shows us to do then we will be blessed. Obedience to his Word will always bring blessing to our lives.