Show Your Faith by Your Works

Note from today’s Bible reading: James 2-3

Many people in the religious world want to separate faith from works. They claim that we are saved by faith apart from anything that we might do. Yet this concept is not taught in the Scriptures.

In fact, James wrote to confront this specific idea. He asked the question, “What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?” (James 2:14). Some will say, yes, that faith can save him. Yet James explained that “faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself” (James 2:17).

How do we show that we truly have faith? It will be through the things that we do. James continued, “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 2:18).

Though many will claim to have faith, we are to prove that we do. The proof will be in the works that we do because there is no way to separate our works from what the Bible describes as a living faith.

So show your faith by your works. It is not enough to simply acknowledge that Jesus is the Son of God or that He died on the cross for our sins. The only way we can demonstrate that we truly believe in Him is by following His word and doing what He has instructed us to do.