DEVOTIONALS AND REFLECTIONS

 "But  prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying  God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to  internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning  contrary to the truth]. For if anyone only listens to the word without obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at his natural face in a mirror; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he immediately forgets what he looked like. But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience]." 

James 1:22-25 Amplified Bible (AMP)