How does true faith respond to God’s Word? That’s the question James answers in James 1:19–27, and it’s one every believer must wrestle with. Faith that’s alive doesn’t just admire truth from a distance. It welcomes it, submits to it, and puts it into practice.
In this short but powerful passage, James shows us what genuine faith looks like when it meets the Word of God. It doesn’t flinch. It doesn’t resist. Instead, true faith receives the Word humbly, obeys it faithfully, and demonstrates it visibly.
To help us picture this process, we’re using the image of sandpaper. The Word of God is like grit in the hands of a master craftsman—scraping away pride, smoothing out sin, and shaping our lives to reflect Christ. The process isn’t always comfortable, but it’s always necessary.
In this three-part series, we’ll walk through James’s powerful teaching on how the Word transforms real people with real struggles. We’ll explore how to prepare our hearts to receive it, how to position our wills to obey it, and how to live lives that display it.
If you want a faith that’s more than words—one that’s shaped by the Word—this journey is for you.
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