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ACTIVE FAITH
Donald R. Fox
When
you feel bad physically or mentality, your activity level is reduced.
The very fact that you are not active as you normally are has a
tendency to make you feel “out of sorts”, “not up to par”.
With this feeling we can also get a “little grumpy”. Know what
I mean, bet you do! We all go through such periods in our life.
Active,
activity is defined in part as: “functioning;
working; causing action; normal power of mind or body; energetic
action; liveliness; alertness...” Worst
still is when a Christian without comprehending, understanding, they
accept as normal non-activity. We set ourselves up as a Christian to
fall into non-active passivity. Notice the following scriptures:
“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith,
and have not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or a sister be
naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them,
Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give
them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it
profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”
(James 2:14-17) “But will thou know, O vain man, that faith
without works is dead?” (James 2:20) The
conclusion is; that we must be active if we be a follower of Jesus
Our Savior.
I
know of Christians that are now aged, have slowed down, yet they are
still actively engaged in works. They write letters of
encouragement, they make telephone calls to those who are weak in
soul and sick in body. They are still “functioning;
working” active
in what they can or able to do. Passivity, non-activity must not
enter our Christian life.
Liveliness
is found in the Word
of God, “For
the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12) You
see, the Word of God
is active,
powerful, and energetic. Christians must produce this type of
activity in order to remain true to the Word,
because, “Even
so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”
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