Well the week has gone full circle and we are once again back at Sunday. Did the "walk through" the week prepare you for this day or did it drain you of all energy and excitement? Are you able to rally up with expectation for an inspiring church service, or are you just going to "pack a pew" today and let everyone else around you respond.
The difference between "faith" and "religion" is simple:
With faith we can "gain the promises of God" which are without limit.
With religion we only try to meet the minimal guideline to achieve the perceived needed participation to be acceptable.
Here are the true definitions of both these words:
Hebrews 11:1 "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen."
James 1:27 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."
Both Faith and Religion in the scriptural sense are verbs; action words, words of "application" not meditation, or mediation, verbs. Faith like religion is useless unless "well exercised", put to use, practiced! Not self seeking but "seeking the betterment of others."
Today, Sunday, is both a day of faith and religion with gladness and great joy as we will be doing service to others for their good and for their edification.
So lets enter into the gates with thanksgiving and praise so that we may leave this communal gathering having laid hold of eternal life and a glimpse of "our reward."
God bless and keep
Love
J&E in Tn
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