Mirror mirror

The beginning of Galatians reminds me of a little blurb from James;

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- (Galatians 1:6; ESV)

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 1:23-25, ESV)

Though the two passages are not exactly on the same topic, it is the motif of turning away that brings them together in my mind. The Galatians are like the man who forgets himself when he turns away from the mirror. I think that it is interesting that there are echoes of James (Martin Luther's least favorite book) in Galatians (his favorite book).