I love the book of James, it’s down to earth, straight talking, get on with it advice. James could say, “I know you trying your best, but could just try to do better in this area.” James could say, “it really doesn’t matter just go to Church on Sunday and say sorry you will be OK.” But James isn’t that kind of person, he shoots from the hip. James says things like, do this, do that, don’t say these things, do say these things. Some times when someone is plain talking they leave the person they are talking to slightly bruised. If you feel slightly bruised from reading the book of James, then maybe you need reminding why James is chucking out all this fantastic advice. Your God, the one that created you, sent his son to die for you on a cross, so that you can party forever in a place that is beyond your wildest dreams. Now I don’t know about you, but I can put up with the odd Bloody nose, knowing that the guy delivering the words is just trying to help me receive a humungous reward in Heaven. You see our God isn’t a god of do’s and don’ts, he isn’t a God that says you have to follow these rituals to get into Heaven. No our God has done that on the cross already. Actually our God gave us only one thing to do, and if we do the one thing Jesus said to do then actually we will be doing all the other stuff anyway. Oh yes that one thing. Well simply really Jesus says, that we are to love each other as he loves us. Try doing that and you will do OK.
