One of the things that I have run into through these years on this earth is folks who are dreamers and folks who are doers. One of the things that just kind of tickles me is that some folks read about and dream about adventures while others do it. Here is a little “folksy” wisdom: true hikers hike, true skiers ski, true hunters hunt. They don’t just read about these things and admire them, they do them.
James writes about this with respect to what true Christianity is. He says that “…faith without works is dead…” Years ago I was talking with a young man from a former church that I pastored who was just not living a gospel testimony. He assured me that he was saved, but that Christians were just not his kind of people! Let me make this point clear; true Christianity is not a simple profession, it is a belief that has caused a change in life.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
James tells us again that real believers are “…doers of the word and not hearers only…” In the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew, Christ teaches three parables that expose the characteristics of true belief. These characteristics form the basis of how these folks are judged for eternity. It is not that they are saved by these characteristics, but rather that these characteristics are true of all who are saved. It would be worth your while to examine these things and apply them to yourself.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Real believers “Do It”.
