“For which cause we faint not; but though our
outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light
affliction, which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory; while we look not at things which are seen, but at the
things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the
things which are not seen are eternal”. (2 Corinthians
4:16-18)
In the previous discussion on the dynamics
of faith, we focused on the fact that one should not mistake works for
faith.The scripture in James 2 shows two extremes of believers: those that want
to pray all the time, confess the word, worship and believe God but don’t want
to take any action towards what they believe, thus they pray and do not work.
The other extreme are those that have no word in their spirit, don’t know where
the promise is in the scripture, they don’t pray or get any revelation but just
want to work it! These are the workaholics. Their agitation for their future is
not based on God’s word but on what they can do exclusive of the word but Faith
is not exclusive of works, neither are works exclusive of faith. We realized
from what James said that the aloneness of faith makes it dead and doing works
without standing on a word makes faith dead as well. Faith is the final word of
God in your spirit precipitating actions but faithaholics have the attitude of faith with the corresponding
action, faith is believing God enough with the corresponding, equivalent and a
conforming, consistent attitude to what you believe. It’s not about crying out
to God or praising Him alone but your faith has to be worked out, there has to
be a corresponding action to what God said.
