Are We Deceiving Ourselves?

We go to church or watch on TV a worship service and hear God’s word. Then, how do we react from what we have heard? Are we obedient to God’s word, or do we analyze it to the point we let it go and we continue on our way?

“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.”  James 1:22-25  NKJV