Religious? Desensitized!

Religious people . . . Know any? I do and I can't stomach them! Most anyone would help someone if they saw them in need. If we saw a child crying we would reach out to console them. If we witnessed an accident we would stop and give assistance. If an elderly person was struggling with a package we would offer to carry it for them. It is simply common courtesy. Ephesians 2:10 says we're "created in Christ Jesus to to good works". James 2:15-17 reminds the believer that faith without is DEAD!. So when we hear on the news and see in pictures the dire needs of our fellow man, even our own citizens in desperate conditions, how can we simply offer a kind word or prayer? Why are we NOT motivated to sacrifice what we already have and can easily replace for their needs? We are caught up the religious activities of the world. We are part of religion, not a genuine relationship with the One Who sacrificed His all for our sakes. Are we that DESENSITIZED?

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. If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.(James 1:22-27)