Don’t just tell me, show me!
Many people will speak about religion, they will say what people should do and how they need to behave, but they, themselves, don’t live the same way. It is easy to talk about religion but not as easy to live it. If you want me to listen to your words, back them up with action.
Faith is a subject many people will talk about, they will say how we need to ‘leave it to God’ or ‘have Faith, God will look after you,’ but they themselves are filled with worry over many things, they try and do everything themselves and they don’t leave it to God! Now, it is easy to talk about faith, to understand what you should be doing, but it’s another matter entirely to put that into practice. Faith will it is talk???, is just that – talk. Until it is tested, until it has been put into action, it’s not really faith.
James 2:16-19
17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18 But someone will say, "You have faith ; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. NIV
James 2:26
26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. NIV
Faith only becomes faith once it is accompanied by action. Do you rely on God? Do you leave it in His hands? Many of us ‘give’ it to God then take it back almost immediately, we keep on trying to do it ourselves to fix the ‘mess’ we have made, but all we end up doing is digging a deeper hole!
Show me your life as a Christian and I will listen more closely to what you say.