Quote is taken from “Holiness:  God’s Plan for Fullness of Life” by Henry Blackaby.  Could it be that we read God’s Word too often for “what we can get out of it’?  We read it for encouragement.  We read it to help us get through life.  Nothing wrong with either of those.  I have many times leaned on God’s Word to get me through dark and difficult days.  However, how often do we read it for rebuke?  For correction?  For discipline?  And even when we do, and we sense God speaking to the deepest parts of our spirit, how often do we let it end there?  James said it this way, “22Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.”  (James 1:22-25).  God desires Holiness no doubt.  We fight against it (at least our flesh does).  But, don’t miss that nugget from James …. “the perfect law gives freedom” and “they will be blessed”.