"What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? . . . But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God."
~ from James 2:14-24~
Have you ever just been discouraged? I mean, you know you have so much to be grateful for, and you are, really you are. And you believe every promise God's given, with the deepest fiber of your being. But still, you're not immune to satan's tactics of fatigue, discouragement & impatience.
You have gotten up, pushing forward in hope, morning after morning for days & weeks, watched them turn into months & years. Still you believe in what is yet unseen. Most days you find the child like spirit within you, to dream & I mean dream big! You look daily to the horizon, expecting today to be your day to receive a miracle.
But every once in a while, our faith grows weary, our spirit becomes tired of the fight. We get dismayed with always giving 200%, & receiving much less in return. We are tired of forcing something that should be so easy- it seems so easy for everyone else. . .just tired of being lonely on this journey. Our inner child threatens to grow up or grow synical, believing the enemy's whispers, "This will never come, it's never going to happen, not for you, you've misunderstood . . . ."
It's a tempting place to give up, to sit down & never work toward anything again. BUT DON'T. . .KEEP WALKING, KEEP WORKING, KEEP GIVING, KEEP LOVING. . .Just do it. These are the feet of your faith. When your heart wants to quit, & your mind's too overwhelmed to offer any help, drag your weary body to it's feet & keep moving. Just do it. HE will show you why later.
He knows your heart, He reads your mind. Maybe He just wants to see if your faith runs so deep that your feet keep goin regardless, completely programed to work for your faith, to work out your faith, even when it's hardest. Just do it.
" If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."
~From James 2:14-24~
