Talk is Cheap

Here is my thought for today...

Inspired by this verse: "If people say they have faith, but do nothing, their faith is worth nothing. Can faith like that save them." James 2:14

After reading this verse I got to thinking...we are taught that we are not saved by our works, but by our belief that Christ is our savior and died on a cross to save us from our own sin. We are saved by the cross. This is true. It is a fact and you cannot dispute it. God does not love us more or less because of what we do or don't do. That is a difficult reality for me to wrap my mind around. NO MATTER WHAT, there is NOTHING we could do to make Him ever love us less. I think the closest love to that, that we can understand is the love for our own children. We often tell Luke even when we are upset about something he has done that we could never love him any less and we love him despite the wrong things he does. Christ is the same. He is our Heavenly Father and he loves us even MORE than that which to me is unfathomable.

So it is true if we truly believe, our salvation is a done deal. I think though that often times we use that as a "cop-out" Since our salvation is locked up we don't have to DO anything else. James shows us however in this verse that this is NOT the case. We cannot be saved by our good works, but it seems to me that if we are TRULY saved, we should do good works because of our salvation. So much has already been done for us, we should want to use our lives to do great things for others. We don't earn grace for the good things we do, but we do good things BECAUSE of God's grace.

So I ask today that you do something kind for someone today. Imagine if everyone who reads this blog just went out and did one kind thing for someone else. (Our counter shows an average of 700 - 800 people check in here each day.) Even something as simple as holding a door for a mom who is trying to get into a store with a stroller (one of the things that makes my day as a mom with a stroller). We are supposed to be the body of Christ. Let's get those hands helping and feet moving. Talk is cheap folks. The best way to share the love of Christ is to pour it out onto others. So think of this today when you are waiting in line at the store and it is taking forever. Give a kind smile to the cashier who is fumbling...you just might make their day! Isn't that what Jesus would want?

We have been given so much. Shouldn't we also give back as much as we can in return? Words are great but giving of our lives is much more valuable!