Sit and sin

James is my favorite book of the Bible. I hate it. It reminds me how I fail every day.

Today it was James 1:22-25 (recommended reading from my friend Joe Saubert.) Listening to the word is not good enough, I have to do what it says. I can't just sit in the pews and hear the word, for full credit I have to walk out the doors and do what it says. Apparently the Word is interactive. But verse 25 says by doing what I have heard, I will be blessed in what I do.

Earlier this week it was James 4:17. Twice! Once from Erwin McManus in a podcast or a book I am reading, and once from a self-confrontation study I am doing. James gets a little harsher here. If I know the good I ought to do and don't do it, it's a sin! End of chapter 4, start ripping rich people in chapter 5! Hey, where's my blessing? Oh, maybe not sinning is it's own blessing.

Anyway, it seems that I am supposed get up, get out and do some good. Maybe after the Rose Bowl.