So I have "talked the talk" about believing, and I have "talked the talk" about having faith, but can I "WALK THE WALK". "Walking the Walk" or "Good Deeds" in the Christian life is the most important thing we can do! James 2:26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Unfortunately the Christian world has a hard time balancing this in our lives. It is easy to say things, but when the time comes to show our belief, we can grow weak and scared or lazy. Some may be because we have not yet come to know how true to God's word He is, or maybe because are scared of our own failures and afraid God will not show Himself to us and those around us.
Just like any relationship we have, we must step out with action to prove, and be proven to that we mean what we say. When you tell someone you love them, the only way they will know is by your actions. The same goes for our heavenly father! He loved us first and called out to us, in return we responded with the exceptance of His Son and the belief that He died on the cross to save us from our sins, and rose from the dead so that we may have eternal life. The bible tells us that is all we need to be saved, but the bible also tells us that faith without works is dead. We as christians can not just walk around saying we are believers and move on peoples lives that way God wants us to be used if we are not active in showing Who Christ is.
I have met and regretfully fell for people who all they were was words! It is such a painful relationship when the other person is only full of empty promises and never delivers them. I am not saying that I have never done this, but was never my intention to tell someone I will do something or give them something knowing that I will not follow through. There is nothing more we are to do then worship God and SHOW God to those around us. When those two components of a believer are joined, God does His work that only He can do.
If you are in a place feeling unfullfilled in your walk, it could be that your life is not open to being used at this time which I believe most of us struggle with. Busy work is not always God's work! We must learn to weed out the busy work from God's work, it is hard at times when it seems we are busy serving our family all the time. God first, family second but there are times when God being first will require us to step out of our comfort zone and serve outside the home, maybe in someone elses. He may even want your own family to sacrifice at a uncomfortable level. This is tough but there is no greater way to show how wonderful God's people are and no greater way to be rewarded in your own life than to go where God calls you to go when He calls you to do it! Hearing comes from the word of God and works is putting that in to action.
The Lord tells us to not grow wearing in doing good but to do all that we do, unto Him. It is easy to get discouraged when no one around you seems to be getting it, but you have no idea what God is doing behind the scenes in other peoples lives to get them to a place of belief. That IS God's promise, and knowing that, is what needs to drive us to act "good" to ALL those around us, not just those who act good to us.
It is my prayer that you and I together can pray, read, and receive the guidance to lead others to Christ in all our actions and that the devil loses ground all over the world. We see all the bad actions and it is scary but God has already won! Lets's win over the lost with love!
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