W-O-R-D-S

I'm doing a new bible study with a girlfriend of mine and man, today, it really made me think!  We are doing the Beth Moore bible study on James, called Mercy Triumphs.  If you don't know Beth Moore, please...find out about her!  She's one of my absolute favorite 'Southern Jesus girls' and she truly touches my heart with her awesome words and her love of scripture.  I thought I'd share a little about what we were diving into today. 

Here's the scripture we reflected on (James 1:22-25, from the NAB):  "Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.  He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.  But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and persevere, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does."


At the end of the study, we were called to write an acronym (WORDS) drawn from the lesson on that scripture.

Here's what I came up with:

W-ho is that person in the mirror?
O-ld self or new self?
R-edeemed or in bondage?
D-oer or hearer?
S-pirit, let me choose Your path to true freedom.

Whatcha think?  I hope that I truly can remember the acronym and the lesson because it hit me that in most situations, I have to choose to move out of any bondage in my heart, out of my 'old self' and old ways, and I have to just DO what he wants me to do.  How often do I hear those words and those lessons, but yet, I still sit in them and just appreciate them and say 'oh that's a nice thought,' but never fully hear the Spirit or call on the Spirit to move me through my own junk?

Here's to leaving it all in the past and moving forward towards His freedom!