Chapter 1, Verses 23-24 “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. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.”
Have you made more than one trip to the mirror? Notice that James uses the word ‘intently.’ This is not a casual look but a deep one. Yet it makes no lasting impression. Besides that, if he only sees the natural face he fails to see the real person. James is all about doing not looking. The person who hears and fails to act is as bad off as the forgetful looker.
Hearing but not doing has the same impact as looking in the mirror and forgetting what one saw.
Task for Today: Next time you look intently into a mirror, look past the outward face and into the real person. Are you a hearer only? We discover that there is no blessing for the non-doer.
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