“If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well” (James 2:8).

I am a child of the King. Thus, I should live as godly royalty. According to my royal obligations, I should love my neighbor as myself.

Have I given my neighbor any reason to “figure out” that I love him as I love myself?

At times, at times.

My neighbor knows me in a limited degree. I suspect he also knows my royal obligations enough to know I’m not meeting them perfectly.

The King also knows me. Intimately and completely, as He knows everybody. As He knew those of His day who claimed to carry the torch of godliness. Listen:

“But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you” (John 5:42).

Does the King see His love in me?

It has been a month and a day since I launched this blog. As was my goal, I have managed to write a little something every day.

So I have met my writing goal. Good for me.

But what about my doing goal?

When I read James 1:22 a few minutes ago, I thought writers in place of hearers:

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

For the second month of this blog, I want to maintain my writing while increasing my doing.

And lest this get no further than Mark Roth’s efforts, I want to remember Philippians 2:13.

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”