3 Easy Steps to Live a Godly Life

1. Hear God’s Word.

James 1:19–21 CSB

My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

A. Quick to listen

B. Slow to speak

C. Slow to anger

*Note the only thing able to save souls* James 1:21b

2. Do God’s Word.

James 1:22–25 CSB

But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like someone looking at his own face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works—this person will be blessed in what he does.

A. Hearing God’s Word demands action. James 1:22-24

B. Obeying God’s Word leads to blessings. James 1:25

3. Live God’s Word.

James 1:26–27 CSB

If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, his religion is useless and he deceives himself. Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

God’s Word demands more than meaningless action. It changes the very way we live our lives on a daily basis.