ECWA Devotion for Saturday 3 January 2026

SATURDAY, 3 JANUARY

TEXT: JAMES 1:19-25

TOPIC: A GENERATION OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD

 

JAMES 1:19-25 NIV   

         

19: My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,

 

20: because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

 

21: Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

 

22: Do 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.

 

A GENERATION OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD

 

We are living in an era of information overload. The constant influx of information from the media space can be overwhelming, resulting in stress, anxiety and decreased productivity.

 

It appears that the more information we acquire, the less we act on it, particularly information we acquire from the word of God, the Bible.

 

James admonishes us to be doers of the word, and not hearers only. James is warning Christians about the dangers of always hearing and accessing information about God, but not doing anything about the information we acquire.

 

Paul also observed that in the last days people will be “ever learning,” and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (2Timothy 3:7) KJV. James calls that attitude self‑deception in verse 22.

 

Most of the confusions in the body of Christ are caused by the well‑informed, i.e., hearers of the word who seem to be religious but do not bridle their tongues. Informed people are hyper critics, they criticize everyone and everything in the church – a very sad development.

 

James closes his exhortation by stating that pure Christianity before God is action, not only knowledge. He then gave an example such as visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

 

QUESTION: Are you a practical Christian or a theoretical Christian with an overload of information?

 

PRAYER: Dear LORD, please help me to practice what I know and desist from destructive criticism in the body of Christ. Amen

 

EVANGELICAL CHURCH WINNING ALL (ECWA) FOOD FOR THE DAY 2026.