"But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.  But the one who looks into the Perfect Law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing." - James 1:22-25

An old mountaineer and his wife who were sitting in front of the fireplace one evening just whiling away the time.  After a long silence, the wife said: "Jed, I think it's raining. Get up and to outside and see." The old mountaineer continued to gaze into the fire for a second, sighed, then said, "Aw, Ma, why don't we just call in the dog and see if he's wet."
Uggghhh!  We're so lazy sometimes!  One thing that has really been on our hearts recently is doing more doing and less talking about doing!  God wants us to be doers not talkers.
I think that James is not describing a man with a poor memory, but rather a man with poor priorities. He doesn’t remember what he saw in the mirror because he doesn’t regard it as very important.  God, heaven, eternal life, and all of the other doctrines in the Bible are interesting and nice, but this guy has a career to pursue.  He’s got money to make.  He’s got his hobbies and toys that are his passion on his days off.  He forgets what God’s Word says about his sins because, really, it just isn’t all that important compared to these other priorities in his life.
God has a specific purpose for our lives at such a time as this.  Let's start giving Him our all.  There's so much work to be done!