Recently, there was a group of foreigner workers who were cheated of their money. They paid their agent fee and came to Singapore but the job and agent was not to be found.

One of my 12 read the newspaper article, took initiative to meet and help the foreign workers. Wow, this is authentic religion according to James 1:26-27 “ ²⁶If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. ²⁷Religion that God 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.”

Some people like to complain that they are not fed with enough bible teaching. But as I reflect further, I realised that they have at least heard about teaching to care for the orphans, widows, poor, needy and foreigners 30, 60 or 100 times as Christians. Yet when it is time for them to translate the truth into application, the same group of people simply turns away as if they are blind.

This is why James 1:22-25 caution us “ ²²Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. ²³Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror ²⁴and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ²⁵But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.”