“Make Someone’s Day – Do a Random Act of Kindness.” -Image Courtesy: Franciscan Sisters
- Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained Angels
without knowing it. –Hebrews 13:2
- Jesus taught, “In everything — treat people the same way you want them to treat you,
for this is the Law of the Prophets.” (See: Leviticus 19:18) –Matthew 7:12
Faith Without Works Is Dead
What good is it my brothers or sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works?
Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food and one of you says
to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” yet you do not supply their bodily needs,
what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works is dead.
Someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your
works and I by my works will show you my faith. You believe that God is One; you do well.
Even the demons believe and shudder. (See: Luke:4:34)
Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith without works is barren?
Was not our ancestor Abraham justified by works when he offered his son Isaac on the alter?
(See: Genesis 22:1-11) You see that faith was active along with his works and faith was brought
to completion by the works. Thus the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God
and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” (See: Genesis 15:6) he was called the friend of
God. (See: 2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8) You see that a person is justified by works and not
by faith alone. Likewise, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she
welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another road? (See: Joshua 2:1-24)
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.
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