Lena Journals to James 5

In whom do we trust? In God, in money, in our good works, in what we know to do, or what we feel we are strong in?
In whom do we trust?
That shows up in how we use, and how much we count on money.
Ok let’s rephrase the question: Is your treasure natural or eternal in nature? Where our treasure is, is where our heart will be also. How we spend our lives shows where our treasure truly is.
What are we counting on? Really counting on?
Do we cheat with our money, or do we use it as a tool to help us give an account to God?
Do we teach others by our example of what we are diligently seeking in life, is it clear what is important to seek after and to live for?
Do we show others what is important, by the life we’ve chosen to live? By what we live and breathe and have passion for?
Are we living to get more stuff, do more things, go more places? Or are we establishers of God’s covenant and of His kingdom being set up on earth so others after us can be saved too?
Do we satisfy our every whim, or do we live to satisfy Him?
Do we think our Christianity is for God to bless what we decide to do, or to give our lives into what He has for us to do? (Please read that line again)
Do we believe Jesus could come at any moment wanting an account of how each of us have spent our lives? Do we believe we could die at any moment and will stand before God for how we live and what we have done or not yet done?
See, we live before God by faith now. If we don’t live this way, are we living by faith yet?
How much are we grumbling about others, even in the house of God?
I was sharing with a friend recently how God sets us in a family or a church as members and we are there for one another even to allow one another to hurt us. It’d be better to be hurt by a friend in the faith, because we know the healer and have a Lord, than to hurt someone who will have vengeance on our lives. Yet in families and in the church, we begin to grumble and complain about one another rather than understanding one another and helping one another through our weaknesses. We are family to see another’s weakness and to help one another grow, even to be allowed the grace to make mistakes and forgive one another out of the mistakes. That’s what true love does.
Do you realize what your parents, or the preachers of the words of God go through, to bring us the word? It is never without a price. Oh man, we have to get this revelation, and appreciate their life laid down for the gospel sake. If we get this we will hear and do the words they give, way more readily, even just in honor of the price paid.
Doing what another is saying is one of the highest ways of honoring a person.
The person who can do another’s will is a mature person, a true son of God.
Do we stop praying, or believing? No we do not, ever stop, ever. Our life is a life of faith. We live and move and breathe a life of faith. We walk by faith, we live by faith, in the son of God who died, gave up His life to free us from eternal death. We don’t stop if it isn’t working yet, we work it till it works!
We walk together to demonstrate unity and peace in a mixed up diverse world. We show our weaknesses and vulnerabilities because we love God, we trust God, and if we hurt one another, we will forgive and be healed by our amazing God, our Father who cares for us. Yeah you may not heal me or even apologize for hurting me, but He does, for He is my source and my supply.
You may hurt me, but I can go to our Father and be made whole again and pray for your wholeness too, because I am filled with His