Face Off

James 1:23-24

Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

When I read this verse I think of the 1997 movie with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage "Face Off" where they assume each others identities and then eventually try and kill each other. There's one point in the movie when Travolta wakes up "faceless" and then forces the doctors to attach Cages face to him. When the surgery is done he looks in the mirror and is taken back at who is looking back at him. It's someone he really doesn't KNOW. He even struggles through trying to ACT like Cage would to the people he knows.

That's sorta what James is describing here. When we hear the word do we walk out the doors of the church or a small group and forget what we heard and how we should act because of it.

It's just like looking in the mirror and seeing a face you don't recognize....because you really never knew the guy in the mirror to begin with. You act like you've never even been in the presence of the word, and you struggle with HOW you should act.

Here's an idea!!! Try to LISTEN to the word and let it mold and shape you. (Just an idea of course?) And then the "man in the mirror" (Did anyone start humming Micheal Jackson???) will match up with the word.

Once again...Be a DOER!!!