Part 2: be a doer.
I’ve often had a struggle with this word from James’ epistle, this part that tells me to be a doer not just a hearer. After all does Paul not say in Ephesians 2: 8 that it is by grace that we are saved through faith and it is not works that saves us?
The old hymn writer penned it so well “nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to thy cross I cling” What is it about humans, they want to have a set of rules so that they can work out their salvation by themselves. Oh they say that it is all of grace but they or should I say we still try to live up to some kind of creed or some law and that word is the key….law. James said “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. He is talking about a law of liberty, not a bondage but freedom, not creeds or rules but liberty. We do because we love, not because we have to but because we want to and another part of the key is the word continue…saved by grace, yes! Kept by the continual process of prayer and the reading f the Word and by doing what the Word says.
Being a doer is not a chore buy rather a joy where Jesus is,,,once again the words from James “count it all joy” you can do that if you are a doer. Salvation is a free gift from God, it's true however if you are truly born again by the Spirit of God you need to continue in His Word to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Another hymn declares "trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus , but to trust and obey." The verse says "when in fellowship sweet, we will sit at His feet, or we'll walk by His side in the way, what He says we will do"..."doers, not hearers only."
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