reading God’s word that we are to live
according to what it teaches. James
1:22-25 proclaims “Do not merely listen to the word, and
so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who
listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a
man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking
at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he
looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect
law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not
forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be
blessed in what he does.”