More than words....Amber

Awesome song. Something that God has shown me these last few weeks is the value of words...or maybe the lack there of. And I know that I'm going to come across sounding bitter but I think I've found a lot of wisdom through it. I can just think back and see multiple times of me believing someone's words or changing my life according to what someone has told me...only to be really misled, dissappointed or manipulated. What's another word for that? Naive?!? Not that I'm now some kind of extremist who refuses to believe anything that anyone tells me...I'm just finding it interesting to sit back and watch at how closely people's words correspond with their actions. And it's been challenging me to be selective at what I tell people.

Here's a great story...this week I found out that it would cost me 110 dollars to go to Sr. High (a youth conference in Sask. that i really wanted to go to). And that it wasn't going to be covered like I thought...which is fine, but I don't HAVE 110 dollars. I mean I haven't been paid for about a month and a half and I"m a student. So basically I told the leadership and the kids I was going to take that I can't go unless God provided the money...blah blah blah and that it wasn't likely that I was going. So on Tuesday I was talking to a friend from Dryden (the registration had to be in for Wed to get a spot with Zion) and he asked if I was going...and to make a long story short he felt that he was supposed to pay for my expenses...WHICH IS AWESOME!!

But then I was thinking...well he said that he would send the money; and it's not that I don't trust him...but I wanted to wait until the money actually came in before telling Zion for sure that i was going and that I made plans (getting people to cover my classes for me...etc). And today the money came in the mail and everything is set...which is AWESOME! SO some serious praise the Lord action...WOOT!

My point is...If faith without works doesn't make sense, then words without actions would probably be pretty similar:

James 2:14-17
What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.