Show Me Your Faith

Hello Facebook Faithful - There are many of you who are on this platform. At current, Facebook is the largest and most powerful social media platform in the world, and next to Google its the second most powerful entity on the internet.

The encouraging messages that we send and the great quotes that we share are minimal to the impact we could have on this world if we used the platform for the enrichment, enhancement, enlightenment, and empowerment of those that are lost and struggling.

Faith and Works

"14 What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

18 But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” (James 2:14-18, NASB)

James was very clear that authentic faith is expressed through actions. It is not actions that save the soul, it is the genuine belief in Christ and the magnanimous work He accomplished at Calvary, but faith produces an external force through the expression of our actions.

Religion has taught us all the right things to say, and all the right scriptures to quote, but the power is not simply in speaking, its in the willingness to cross over the line of comfort into the realm of impossibility. In fact, true faith isn't authenticated until it has been tested by the trials of impossibility.

Become engaged, your words are beautiful and needed, but they are empty without corresponding action. "I will pray for you" is not what the broken person needs to hear; they need you to help them engage their moment. The homeless man does not need to hear "God bless you"; he needs you to bless him.

Dr. Rick Wallace 

If you are wondering why the world has such minimal regard for Christianity, it is because their is very little action behind the words, that transforms our speech into simple rhetoric.

It is time to engage the issues of today with more than simple religious rhetoric. Honestly, the world has heard enough of that. They need to see true Christian power expressed through those that claim Him. As long as we continue to walk around beaten up and defeated; as long as we continue to hide behind the comfort of empty words; as long as we move with no force or no power, we will never have any true impact.

How will your faith be reflected? If you still believe that you can have faith without corresponding works, I will continue to show you my faith by my works. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace