Putting Action To Your Faith

Putting action to your faith is living following your beliefs. It’s allowing your belief in God’s kingdom to motivate you to act.

The Bible says that faith is truly living when it is shown through action. It says in James 2 “Without works (evidence) your faith is dead. What we do will not save us, but it is evidence to those around us that you mean what you say.

The emphasis of true faith isn’t just about believing in something, but actively demonstrating that belief through actions.

Jesus consistently shows in the Bible by demonstrating His faith through acts of compassion, healing, and service to others. His faith was put into action.

How many people do their “weekly duty” of going to church and then going home and doing nothing for others until the next church service?

While good works will not save us, it is actions put to our faith and those actions will save us. It’s our faith that saves us. And faith is reflected in everything we do.

Faith is an attitude that we must display through our actions. We must be doers of the word not only hearers of the word. When we put our faith into action we do things that line up with our current level of faith.

Belief is a key part of faith, but it’s not the whole part. Faith is confidence, assurance, and certainty in God and His Word. Faith believes even when you cannot see any evidence in the natural.

Hebrews 11:1 tell us what faith is:

“The substance of things hopes for, the evidence of things not seen.”

Hope, when coupled with faith has substance, and substance is something rather than nothing. Faith also provides evidence for things which are not visible. Faith is not blind, it’s far from being blind, it is both far-sighted and sharp-sighted. Its evidence rests not on speculation but on confidence in a God who sees what we cannot see. It rests on trust in the reability of every promise that is spoken by God.

It is one thing to believe in God. But it is quite another to believe God. Abraham believed God when He said He would show him a better country. He believed God again later when God dramatized His covenant promise in Genesis 15, and buggers faith, Abraham was counted righteous. He was justified by his faith.

Abraham’s faith was genuine because he obeyed God by faith. True faith is always obedient faith. Abraham obeyed the call of God on his life, he demonstrated this obedience -His faith issued action.