<p>1:24 <i>For he sees himself and goes away and immediately forgets what manner of man he was</i>- James 1:24,25 parallel looking at ourselves, and looking into the perfect law of liberty. To read Scripture as God really intended, not as mere words on paper, is to find ourselves engaged in an inevitable self-examination. Reflect a while on two consecutive verses in Ez. 8:18; 9:1: &ldquo;Though they Israel <i>cry in my ears with a loud voice</i> when they are under judgment for their actions, which I now ask them to repent of, yet will I not hear them. He God <i>cried also in my </i>Ezekiel&rsquo;s <i>ears with a loud voice</i>, saying&hellip;&rdquo;. Do you see the connection? As we read and hear God&rsquo;s word today, He is passionately crying in our ears with a loud voice. Just imagine someone literally doing this to you If we refuse to hear it, then we will cry in <i>His</i> ears with a loud voice in the last and final day of condemnation. The intensity of <i>His</i> appeal to us now will be the intensity with which the rejected plead for Him to change His verdict upon them; and God, like them in this life, will refuse to hear. What arises from this is a simple fact: as we read and hear the pages of Scripture, as we turn the leaves in our Bibles, God is crying in our ears with a loud voice. Our response to Him is a foretaste of our acceptance or rejection at the day of judgment.</p>