Take a good look at yourself!

James 1.22-24

"Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like." (MSG)

Jesus don't give us suggestions, He gives us commands! It's up to us if we either want to obey Him or not, or just treat his instructions as mere suggestions, only obeying if it does not cost to much.

 

Whatever He has told us to do, it's never a better way than obeying His call. He has called us all to go out and share the good news, the gospel, and pray for our neighbours to get reconciled with God. Let us take Him on his word. 

"But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do." (v. 25) (NIV)

When we obey him, we become more like Jesus, and we become more the way God planned for us to be. When we live in fellowship with God, and learn to trust Him more, and also trust Him enough to obey Him, whatever he wants of us, it produces joy in our lives, because that is what we are called to do. Then you will then learn more of, whom God is, and then you get to know yourself in a deeper way. Because God's ways are much greater and higher than our ways, and He knew us before we even was born.