Faith Works part 2
Faith works when you do. Because faith without works is dead. Charity is love in action. And its not about talking the talk. Its about walking the walk. Don't sing it. Bring it. Don't talk about it. Be about it. I believe that love is maximum effort. Both because it the most powerful thing you can do, and because when you do it you give everything you have and everything you are. But that's the thing... love is giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. So in order for your faith to really be faith... it has to manifest in actions. I will show you my faith BY my works. Right? Because what you do flows from what you believe. What you believe is inside WILL come out. It has to. Its too big to stay inside. Whether what you believe is good, bad, or ugly. If you believe it--either the lie of the world or the report of the Lord--it will manifest in your life. If you believe things are bad and getting worse... that's what you'll experience. But if you believe things are good and getting better... that's what you'll experience. Here's what I'm trying to say: Be the change you want to see in the world. If you want something different... do something different. If you're not happy, do something about it. What's that old saying? If you can't accept something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude about it. Life is like ten percent what happens to you and ninty percent how you react to it. And what I'm trying to say is: You don't always have to react. You can be proactive. You can be a thermostat instead of a thermometer. You don't have to take the temperature. You can set the temperature. Look at Hebrews 12:29, "For our God is a consuming fire." And the fire in you is ALWAYS hotter than the fire you're in. Because God IS the fire. LOVE is the fire. And there's nothing hotter. God is all-powerful. Which is to say, LOVE is all-powerful. Which doesn't mean MOST powerful. It means love has ALL of the power. Love IS all of the power. Nothing can stand against love. Nothing can defeat love. Love never fails... because love endures. Love stands strong when all else fails. Love works in every situation. Love is the answer. The solution to every problem. There's never a situation that wouldn't be helped by a big helping of love. Love lights the way. It (HE) lets us see clearly. And when we can see things as they truly are, that's when we can be who we really are. What you see is what you be. What you believe is what you do. If you believe you are not loved, you will do everything in your power to get what you think you don't have. But if you believe you ARE loved... you will do what you do BECAUSE of that love. Either you think you don't have it and you try to get it... or you know you have it and you give it away. Faith works when you do. In order to walk by faith you have to walk. Rest is not inactivity. Rest is Holy Spirit directed activity. Doing what you do because its in your heart to do it. Because love made you do it. That's what it means for Christ's love to control us--it means we do what we do because of love. For love. By love. In love. We have faith in God--in love--and then that love that's inside us comes out in every move we make and every breath we take.