A few years ago I wrote down John 2:14-17 on a post it note. Just yesterday I found this little piece of paper and looked up the scripture to see why I had wrote these verses down. Now I remember.
14My friends, what good is it to say you have faith, when you don't do anything to show that you really do have faith? Can that kind of faith save you? 15If you know someone who doesn't have any clothes or food, 16you shouldn't just say, "I hope all goes well for you. I hope you will be warm and have plenty to eat." What good is it to say this, unless you do something to help? 17Faith that doesn't lead us to do good deeds is all alone and dead!
Many, many times I have been guilty of claiming to have faith and to be a Christian, but lacked the deeds to follow it! I have seen hungry people asking for food, and said "God Bless," or even worse, judged them by wondering if they truly did have a need. I have claimed to have faith and then worried myself to death, only proving that I had everything but faith. I have seen the needs of friends and said, "I'll pray for you," only to forget.
I have also seen the need of the faces of orphans and loved them until they could take no more. I have fed the hungry. I have prayed over the sick and oppressed. I have seen a need, and had ENORMOUS faith that God would provide a way…and He did!
I am on a journey, and I am not perfect! But I pray that God uses this scripture to strengthen me and you to become doers. To become servers. To become givers. To become goers and senders!
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