Be

Sometimes we need to just be. This does not mean to sit about and do nothing and just wait for things to happen. It does mean to work. It does mean to do everyday the things that are placed in front on you to do and let God handle the details.

Do I hear you professing to believe in the one and only God, but then observe you complacently sitting back as if you had done something wonderful? That's just great. Demons do that, but what good does it do them? Use your heads! Do you suppose for a minute that you can cut faith and works in two and not end up with a corpse on your hands?
Wasn't our ancestor Abraham "made right with God by works" when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar? Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works? That the works are "works of faith"? The full meaning of "believe" in the Scripture sentence, "Abraham believed God and was set right with God," includes his action. It's that mesh of believing and acting that got Abraham named "God's friend." Is it not evident that a person is made right with God not by a barren faith but by faith fruitful in works?
The same with Rahab, the Jericho harlot. Wasn't her action in hiding God's spies and helping them escape—that seamless unity of believing and doing—what counted with God? The very moment you separate body and spirit, you end up with a corpse. Separate faith and works and you get the same thing: a corpse.

James 2:19-26

You see you must mix your work with your being. You must act on what is placed in front of you to do each day with the faith, the belief, that God will use this for your good even though you do not know the outcome. Detach yourself from the outcome, just do what you need to do today. Love the ones around you. Show kindness to the strangers driving around you or at lunch with you. Connect with God today through acts of compassion, love, and in your thoughts. Know that God will work all things for your good and just take the actions that are in front of you at this moment.

We all too often take action thinking of some specific outcome, but this is not faith. This is our own pride and ego wanting things to work out the way we think they should. Faith is acting, working, and then just letting those actions and work be as it should be. These cannot be seperated from each other. If we have faith but do nothing, nothing will happen it is dead. If we work but believe our work will not yield anything, that is dead also and a waste of time. To truly live we are not caught up in our work as something that will make things the way we want them, but to do and then allow God to use them as God will. This is the essence of being, of not worrying, and of finding the peace that passes understanding.

Today do what is placed in front of you to do and let God handle the details. Have the faith, the knowing, that God is at work taking care of you. You will see this soon enough.

Namaste'