Today’s Thought “Hold My Peace?” G. Ward

James 1

²⁶ If anyone thinks himself to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless. ²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

 

Every generation has had many to think of those perceivably unproductive (i.e., morally reprehensible) for their era as the worst in history and it causes their expression(s) to more embody great despair, synonymous with horrid doubt that really states, even God can’t remedy their hearts (*vv.5-8). Religion can really translate, devotion unto and whereas the object of such faith unequivocally will state, it’s Jesus Christ, we must live as being owned by HIM (v.1a); maintaining the kind of compassion HE had upon looking at the multitudes (i.e., thousands); seeing them as sheep without a Shepherd and whereas vs.37 of Matthew, chapter 9 is subsequent to such a phenomenal example, the workers remain unfortunately “few.”