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Live out your faith · UCT Youth Daily Devotion

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  Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and welcome to another episode
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  of the United Church of Donga Youth Devotion.
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  Our Bible passage for today is taken from James 2, verse 20b.
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  It says, Faith without works is dead. Our theme is, live out your faith.
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  Faith is a term that we are very familiar with. We hear it being preached at church and even at home.
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  We say it when we share with others about our Christian walk.
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  We are urged and challenged to believe in Jesus Christ.
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  For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  that whosoever believe in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
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  This is one verse that most of us know from a young age.
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  We read it, we memorize it, we even believe it. But what do we do with that belief?
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  Could this be just head knowledge?
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  James challenges us in verse 19 by saying, You believe that there is one God. You do well.
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  Even the demons believe and tremble.
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  If you ask Satan if he believed in God and if he answers honestly, he will say yes.
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  The devil believes that there is one God, but does not worship him.
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  In verse 20, James strongly reminds us that faith without works is dead.
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  He is not saying that we must work to earn our salvation.
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  Definitely not. What he's saying is that if we believe in Jesus Christ and do
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  nothing with that belief, then our faith is dead.
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  True faith encompasses more than just agreeing mentally with a list of beliefs.
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  If we reflect on Abraham's response when God told him to take his son Isaac
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  and offer him as a sacrifice to God, Abraham obeyed God without question.
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  He lived out his faith in God through his obedience to God's command.
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  James is provoking us today to get out of our comfort zones.
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  We should not get too comfortable with the idea that we believe in God and the teachings of the Bible.
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  We need to rise above cultural identification, thinking we grew up in the church and we have faith.
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  Living out our faith is more than verbal affirmation that we believe in God
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  and we belong to the church.
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  We must not be Christians in name only.
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  Our faith must be shown in how we live our lives daily.
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  If we are the ones who always tell lies or have hate in our hearts towards others,
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  live out our faith means we learn from the scriptures that we are to love one another.
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  Therefore, we discipline ourselves to let go of our hateful attitudes and lies,
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  but relate to others in love and always tell the truth.
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  Our faith in God must be more than skin deep.
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  When our faith is alive, we undergo daily transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  which aligns our personalities and our priorities with the Word of God. Let us pray.
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  Lord Jesus, thank you for reminding me today that I must live out my faith in you.
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  Help me to develop and nurture a relationship with you.
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  In Jesus' name, Amen.