Fill Out the Form
You can fill out the form, but you have to submit.
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”
Shepherd’s Note
James warns that listening to the word without doing it is a kind of self deception, like filling out a form and never submitting it. The information may all be correct, and nothing has actually happened. Faith becomes real at the point of response, when the sermon becomes a phone call, an apology, a gift, a changed habit. GOD is not asking you to admire the form. He is inviting you to trust Him enough to press submit, and to discover that obedience, not information, is where the blessing lives.
This post is part of a series about my beach encounters with GOD. Read from the Beginning >>