Read James 1:22-27
They say that the only way to really learn something is to experience it. That is what James is saying. You can read the Bible you whole life but if you don't apply it to you life it is not beneficial to you. It is as crazy as looking in a mirror and forgetting what you look like the minute you walk away. But if you look deeply into the Word of God and apply what you find then you will be blessed by God.
The proof of a changed life is one that can control his mouth. If you can't then your mouth cancels your worship. And to take it one step further.... pure religion is to visit the fatherless and the widows and to remain unspotted from the world. So we can stay unspotted from the world? Yes, we can.
I teach 6th and 7th grade girls and one of my girls said her teacher said that we all sin an average of 3 times a day. I told her that was dead wrong. Why do we think we have to sin? 2 Pet. 1:3-9 says that God has given us everything we need to live a godly life so that we may participate in the divine nature of God, having escaped the corruption in the world. I know I am talking about a mature Christian but it saddens me to hear Christians talk like they are doomed to sin. We have a sin nature but we are new creatures in Christ with a will to choose right from wrong. Experiencing God's presence and his Word keeps our desires from wanting to stray.
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