James compares the Bible to a mirror. 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; for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was (James 1:23-24). The main benefit of a mirror is to show you if there is anything out of order about you, and if you find that there is, you can set it right. Use the Bible in that way.
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