Faith in action James 2:18-3:18
Today's reading was a reminder of what we just read last week in Hebrews 11 - Faith is meant to be lived out in our actions for our benefit and the benefit of others. We can't just say that God is worthy of our trust and then try to live in unsurrendered control. We can't just say that God is a loving God to us and then go treat others without love. We can't just say that God is our hope and future and then live life as if this world is our everything. We can't just say spiritual things, quote scripture, sing praise song, tell people how great God is and how important he is to us...faith is not just words and proclamations made with our mouths. Faith is meant to be alive, to have hands and feet, to be seen in our lives so that how we live reflects what we say and believe.
Today I encourage us all to pray and ask God to show us what areas of our faith we are not living out the way we should, the way God calls us to. Then we need to ask him to help us, to give us the determination, the perseverance, the know how and ability to live out our faith and live it well. May we encourage each other to live our faith like those we read about last week in Hebrews 11 and to live it well so that we can be a "cloud of witness" a community of witness to what faith truly looks like and bring hope to those who have yet to take hold of faith for themselves.
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