HEARERS OR DOERS?
James 1:21-25
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” – (James 1:22)
There are two groups of people in the church. You are either a hearer of the word of God or a doer. A hearer is one who listens to the word of God with rapt attention only to later forget and revert to his/her normal way of doing things. He/she may even have resolved to change during the course of the teaching; however, the hearer would not change because he/she would not make a conscious effort to initiate the change process.
With every word which convicts your heart, you must make the change immediately, or else you would be a mere hearer of the word. Don’t begin to analyse it; just make the change. In the process of analysing, you will give the devil the opportunity to suggest why you should not make that necessary change. If after listening to a sermon, you realise the need to repent from committing adultery, you must immediately break the evil relationships that make you open to the sin, before you even think about it. Send a message to your partner in sin and delete his/her contact immediately. If you delay, the devil would tell you how hurt the person would feel; he would also remind you of the sinful pleasures that you would be missing. At the end of the day, if you entertain the thoughts of the devil, you may eventually return to adultery and end up in hell. John 15:14 says:
“Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”
The best thing to do when you hear a word that touches you is to act on it immediately without hesitation. Do not postphone as you may not get around to doing it again. Mary told the servants at the wedding feast: Whatsoever he says to you, do it. Imagine if the servants have stopped to analyze the correlation between water and wine, the miracle would have eluded them. Your mind is a battlefield; if you give the enemy the opportunity to restrategise, you could eventually lose the fight.
MEDITATION: John 2:5
