One of yesterday’s daily readings was James 2:14-24,26. If you’ve never read it before, you should do it now…even if you have read it, you should read it again. I’ve read these verses many times, and each time I do, I find it easy to reflect on what God is asking me to do, which often changes over time. If you’ve ever wondered if God is asking you to do something specifically, these verses are great to meditate on. Read them and then take some quiet time to listen to God. Clear your mind and be at peace with what he is saying to you. If this is difficult at first, be patient! It can take time to learn to tune out all the outside noise.

(As an aside, compare this reading from James with Romans 4:5-6. Are James and Paul saying different things here? What do you think?)

Happy Saturday!

James 2:14-24,26
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14What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?
15And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food:
16And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?
17So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
18But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith.
19Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble.
20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?
22Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect?
23And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God.
24Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only?
26For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.
Romans 4:5-6
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5But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.
6As David also termeth the blessedness of a man, to whom God reputeth justice without works:
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