Day 21 - March 22

Faith - Good Deeds. James 2:14-20

How do I show my faith. How do I show the world that hurting, that needs to know there is a Saviour, needs to know that Christ took upon Him all our sin, our hurt, our shame that I have faith in this God. This God that is kind, that is loving, that is just, that cares for the details of my life. By my good deeds. By my actions. By my love. I can't just be all talk, all words. I can't just type that I have faith and that I want people to know Christ. I have to hop of my hiney and it put into action.

I don't want to discount what I do or what many of us do. Some of us we're mothers, we do dishes and change poopy diapers. I know I have good deeds. But lots of people have good deeds. Oprah, Ellen, Gandhi, Ty Pennington (I wonder how Gandhi feels about being put into the same category as this other folks hmmmm) they have or had good deeds. But what were these deeds born out of and what is the eternal value of them?

So its about my attitude, about my heart. Am I serving, am I doing these good deeds because of my faith? Or am I grumbling my way through these good deeds? I do I first think -God gave me life, gave me grace, gave me forgiveness and because of new life life in me I must serve? This needs to pour out of me. Christ gave all, thing about that - ALL. So if the way that I show this faith that is given to me is by good works, by actions, by loving people it is simply what I have to to do.

So the next step?......