Show Me Your Faith
“What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?” – James 2:14 Hmm, good question brother James, what does saving faith look like? Off the bat, before I even skim the top of this question, I would like to clarify one thing. James is in no way saying that a person can save themselves through works. His friend and colleague Paul makes this quite clear. The difference is that where Paul talks about God’s grace alone saving through faith (Ephesians 2:5), that is, a believer’s initial entry into a relationship with God through Christ, James here talks about what that transforming, new creation life looks like once brought into relationship and under the care of God. Friends, Jesus did not take the sins of the world upon himself so that we could give him a nod of acknowledgement and then go right back to sinning, NO, we are made into a new creation, “created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand…” (Ephesian