How Does Jesus Feel If We Talk the Good Talk, but Don't Follow Through with Our Actions?

How Does Jesus Feel If We Talk the Good Talk, but Don't Follow Through with Our Actions?

It says in James 2:14-20 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe-and tremble! But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

This is an important passage for all of us!

How Does Jesus Feel About Us Paying Attention to the Rich and Famous and Neglecting Those Without Wealth?

How Does Jesus Feel About Us Paying Attention to the Rich and Famous and Neglecting Those Without Wealth?

It says in James 2: 1-9 My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, "You sit here in a good place, " and say to the poor man, "You stand there," or, "Sit here at my footstool." have you not shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called? If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors." 

I have to admit that I'm guilty of this one, as well, but it's important to know what Jesus wants, and to try to be open to being the Christian He wants!

How Does Jesus Feel When We Lose Our Cool?

How Does Jesus Feel When We Lose Our Cool?

I don't know about you, but I've lost my cool more times than I'd like to admit, but is that O.K.? Well, it says in James 1:19-25  So then, My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. 

How Does Jesus Feel About Those Who Say Hateful Things, but Profess to be Christian, but Can't be Bothered with Widows, Homeless, Etc.?

How Does Jesus Feel About Those Who Say Hateful Things, but Profess to be Christian, but Can't be Bothered with Widows, Homeless, Etc.?

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. James 1:26-27

It doesn't appear to this reader that Jesus takes kindly to those professing to be Christians, but are hateful in their speech. Nor does He take kindly to those who couldn't be bothered by orphans, widows, the homeless, etc.