Tuesday, April 20, 2010

With Counsel, Comfort and Relief

This mornig and later today I was reading and refelecting on James 1:27

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world"

Wesley breaks it  down as follows:

The only true religion in the sight of God, is this, to visit - With counsel, comfort, and relief. The fatherless and widows - Those who need it most. In their affliction - In their most helpless and hopeless state. And to keep himself unspotted from the world - From the maxims, tempers, and customs of it. But this cannot be done, till we have given our hearts to God, and love our neighbour as ourselves.


If this is the religion that God accepts  I want mine  to look like  it.  Please read this  verse  reflect on it  and ask yourself  who does God want  me  to help?

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