{"id":165,"date":"2023-12-15T10:50:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/?p=165"},"modified":"2023-12-15T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:51:30","slug":"man-in-the-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Man In The Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Man In The Mirror<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James 1:22 <em>But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. 25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does Abba provide suffering?<br>Luke 14:36 And He was saying, \u201cAbba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was \u201cthis cup\u201d if not a cup of suffering?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James encourages us to be \u201cdoers.\u201d Question: What is there to do if there is no suffering in the world? Would we understand the pain Elohim suffered in giving up The Son in order to redeem us? Does a football team win without suffering? Could we even praise God if there were no suffering in our lives? How can we know what \u201cgood\u201d is if we don\u2019t have something like suffering to compare it to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m starting with the man in the mirror<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m asking him to change his ways<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And no message could have been any clearer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you wanna make the world a better place<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look at yourself and then make that change\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M Jackson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father, stand beside me as I look in the mirror. Do I see Your Word reflected back to me or do I see my own selfishness? Father, I want to be filled with You, not me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Man In The Mirror&#8221; link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PivWY9wn5ps?si=dqbemgge0ItgmsK7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/PivWY9wn5ps?si=dqbemgge0ItgmsK7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man In The Mirror James 1:22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man In The Mirror<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,72,67,65,66,68,70,73,69,71],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devo","tag-delude","tag-doer","tag-forgotten","tag-james-122","tag-liberty","tag-luke-1436","tag-man-in-the-mirror","tag-michael-jackson","tag-perfect-law","tag-suffering","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharp.men\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}