Reflection paper for FISH August

Reflection Paper

       Fish August

   “Obey God’s message! Don’t fool yourselves by just listening to it.” James 1:22

    This passage really made me laugh, that’s why I decided to make a reflection paper about that verse. And another reason is that because the way that Saint James delivered it was kind of funny, but another reason was the passage was right.

    Some of us people are trying to fool ourselves into thinking that we understand God’s word but in reality we just listened and we never understood it or tried to understand it.

  There are many reasons why didn’t even try to understand God’s word and one of it is because we are too lazy to even accept God’s messages for us, or the other one is we are just too scared of accepting God’s word because sometimes we feel that his words are directing towards us, that he is judging our mistakes.

  And those two people that I described, they are both me I’m lazy and I am afraid.

   This passage even though it is short but for me the message is quite long. Saint James told us that we need to obey God’s message and just stop acting like we are listening because it is disrespectful, and not only that because it is hard to say the word of God so we need to accept it, because if it is hard for us it is also hard for those who deliver God’s word to us.

   And we need to learn from them because even though it’s hard they learned to accept God’s word unconditionally, and humbly.

  

   And I realize now more than ever how important it is to understand God’s word because if we don’t understand it how will we ever come back to him, how will we ever make Him proud of what we are doing and how will we ever express our gratitude for Him for all that he has done and all that he has given to us, and how will we understand what he feels if we do not listen to his word.

    That is why it’s important to listen to Him so that we can express our gratitude and we can get closer to understanding Him.

   That is what I have realized in this passage, it’s not just about listening it is understanding what God’s true intentions are and what he is willing to do for us, and all that we can do now is accept his word and be closer to Him than we are now.

   That is what the passage said to me.