"If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that HE 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." James 1:26-27

What does my life look like in relation to what HE calls us to? My religion has been worthless and honestly I have only seen glimpses of pure and undefiled religion in my life. My life has looked more like a garbage dump than a Temple of the Most High. Oh what a wretch I am and these are only 2 verse of this book...the shoe leather of the gospel. I have been deceived to believe that my life was normal, reality. What HE has shown me is that this...this is reality. His Reality. 

What does true and pure religion look like? 
A bridled tongue: being quick to listen and slow to speak. Pry for me as I turn over the reigns of this evil tongue of mine to The One Who can bridle it and control it just like He controls my life.
Visiting orphans and widows in afflictions: Pry for me as I seek to make my commitment at the farm more of what HE desires. I am not sure what that will look like but that is what I desire.
Keeping myself unstained and unpolluted from the world: Pry for me as He convicts me of areas of disobedience to His Commands and obedience to the normalcy of the world. Pry this verse over me as I allow Him to reveal these areas of pollution in my life, deep in my life and allow Him to clean them through this beautiful and painful process of sanctification. "I will not set before my eyes ANYTHING that is worthless." Psalm 101:3.

I long to be mature, complete, not lacking anything. I desire to humbly plant His Words of Truth in my life. I desire to look intently into His Perfect Law and allow it to change me. I want my religion that He accepts; pure and faultless. Pry that HE will give me the faith in His Sovereignty and that HE will be my Satisfaction and I will not want.

And you? How can I be pryng for you? How has HE used these verses to speak to you?





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