The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

James 1:22-25, “…prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. 25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in what he does.”

When was the last time you looked at yourself in a mirror? Do you remember how you looked? Maybe you better look again. James relates our looking at ourselves in a mirror to one who hears without doing. We listen carefully to our pastors as they tell us what God’s Word says, but are we doing what that Word says we are to do?

I remember a conversation from years past. Someone was defending himself by saying: “I don’t drink! I don’t smoke! I don’t use curse! I don’t steal! I don’t—” when he was abruptly interrupted by someone who asked, “Hey, what do you do?” Think about that. We may have temporarily conquored some things, and that is good. But what are we doing that is beneficial to the lives of others? What are we doing that brings honor and glory to Almighty God? It’s that mirror thing again. We can’t just keep going back again and again, relying on what we don’t do! We need to move forward and become true doers, sharing what we know of our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Don’t think you can? There’s an old song’s chorus comes to mind:

Ask the Savior to help you,

Comfort, strengthen and keep you;

He is willing to aid you.

He will carry you through.

Praying for you and for our nation and her leaders,

Nana & Dado III

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”