My Favorite Verses - Vol III (Aug 16 to Nov 16)
A collection of brief commentaries on some of the Bible’s most beloved (and least understood) passages, parables, verses & sayings
A collection of brief commentaries on some of the Bible’s most beloved (and least understood) passages, parables, verses & sayings
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James 1:21-22 … Welcoming the Word<br />
(10/29/20<strong>16</strong>)<br />
“Welcome with meekness the implanted Word that has the Power <strong>to</strong> save your<br />
Souls … Be Doers of that Word, and not mere hearers who deceive themselves.”<br />
~ James (James 1:21-22)<br />
Ahhh, God bless “James the Just” … It is no wonder that Jesus held him in<br />
such incredibly high regard (see Gospel of Thomas 1:12), as he was obviously one<br />
of the few disciples who seemed <strong>to</strong> truly “get it”; one of the very few who<br />
unders<strong>to</strong>od that it was not by worshiping Jesus himself that one could be saved –<br />
that Salvation came not from a mere mental belief “in Christ” or a mere verbal<br />
profession of “faith”, but rather (as Jesus himself so often and so consistently said<br />
throughout the Gospels) that Salvation comes <strong>to</strong> us solely through acts of selfless<br />
Love – especially those acts of Love given when we least wish <strong>to</strong> give them;<br />
especially those acts of Love given <strong>to</strong> those deemed "least deserving" of the same<br />
… Indeed (in-Deed!), James knew that we are not <strong>to</strong> be mere doers of the words of<br />
Paul, but that we are rather <strong>to</strong> be Enliveners of The Word of Jesus Christ instead!<br />
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