Faith is a progressive process that builds upon each step and is the foremost "work" of belief. James 2, John 6, and 1 Thessalonians 3 all teach about how work and faith brought together lead to God's ultimate goal for each of our lives.

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What do you use to fuel your day? Coffee? Relationships? Food? Experiences? Purchases? These things may provide us with a quick charge to tackle a few things, but they don't sustain us well enough to fuel our faith. James 2 reminds us that faith requires output and can only be sustained with the right type of fuel otherwise it isn't faith that works.

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Laws help us stay within healthy boundaries, but if we focus on the law, skirting disobedience, and doing our best to not do anything deemed "wrong" we live in bondage to the law. James 2 reminds us that as a follower of Christ we can choose to follow a more perfect law, the law of liberty.

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On a day when divisions are expected to run high, how do we seek first to love our neighbor as ourself even when we don't see eye to eye over politics? James 2 talks specifically to partiality and how it is rooted in evil, but thankfully that is not where God leaves us. He instead has provided us a much better example on how to live in love towards everyone, even those who may never understand or return the love we extend to them.

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Occasionally, useful items are aesthetically pleasing, but looks are usually an afterthought when practicality considering the needs an item fulfills in our everyday life. James 2 reminds us that useful faith is messy and rarely aesthetically pleasing to the person living it out and the surrounding observers, at least in the short-term, that is why it's called faith.

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As Christians we are to bear fruit in bunches with others, not as solitary pieces of fruit on the vine. The book of James is written with the words "us" and "we" to ensure that even when circumstances may cause believers to not be in physical proximity, we can't disassociate from other believers and expect to live out our full calling.

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Persevering through life requires more than determination, grit, and self-confidence because these internal factors can't always compensate for the extreme external forces we face that lead to weakness, doubt, and fear. James 1 talks about how to maintain a persevering faith, not by trusting in ourselves, but rather in a very trustworthy guide who has no weakness, doubts, or fears.

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There are lots of things we take into our bodies that are here today, gone tomorrow. But some things build up a presence inside us either through repeated exposure or by a conscience choice to remove the unwanted and tend only what we desire. James 1 refers to these build-ups as implants that we need to either set aside or receive more. Today we look further into this concept in Ephesians and 1 Peter to better understand how to live this way and why it matters for our soul health.  

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Being a good servant who uses their resources wisely has little to do with lack or excess of material goods has afforded us in this world, but our worldly provisions do dictate the mindset we need to take. James 1:2-11 teaches to those on both ends of the spectrum of worldly provisions and reminds us all that our response to various circumstances and trials will show how well we keep to this mindset when we are hard-pressed and looking for an escape instead of being perfected by living out our faith.  

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Living an effective life requires we make wise choices at every turn we encounter. These choices are not so much a matter of avoiding poor decisions, but pursing what is best and leaving the rest behind. As we start a new study in the book of James today, we see that James summarizes there are two key things we must do regularly to make wise choices that lead to an effective and fruitful life that will receive God's stamp of approval.  

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