PrayerBits
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Monday
Scripture lesson: James 2:14-18 Faith vs Works
Time to reflect: Commentators sometimes try to pit Paul's ?Faith alone? comments against James' comments about the value of good works, but this is a false dichotomy. They both say essentially the same thing but are merely approaching the problem from different directions. James doesn't think that works saves, only faith does that, but he is pointing out that true faith, real faith, will result in good works, as a bi-product.
Moving through the day: Pray that your good works are done as a result of faith and not as a substitute for faith.
Scripture:
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ?Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,? and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. But someone will say, ?You have faith and I have works.? Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
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