Sunday, September 15, 2013

Thought of the Week: Introspection



When studying God’s Word how often does a man compare his life to the scriptures? As easy as it is to call out the problems of the lives of others the Bible calls for man to perform the toughest type of inspection. “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5). The hardest inspection a man can perform is that of introspection. It requires than an individual not to look at the faults of others but those of self. This is not some halfway glance at one’s life but deep contemplation as to whether or not someone is truthfully living up to God’s standards or just deceiving himself. “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” (Jam. 1:22-25).

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