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  • Genuine Faith Good Works 06
    2025/07/21

    Again, lets look at the context surrounding this verse a little more:

    Verse 2

    2 Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.

    – be joyful when you are dealing with, navigating through a vast array of different and difficult problems of ANY sort or you fall into various temptations.

    Now what could some of that vast array of trials or temptations be to individuals or families that have been driven from their lands? All of these produce steadfastness, patience and endurance and then in all of this, if the way forward is still not super clear – then ask God for Wisdom. Some of this could be day-day survival matters, food, shelter, clothing, safe places – re-establishing their family in a new area, cropping, starting a business, trading – there’s so much going on in these peoples lives and all of this pressure and uncertainty James says – “ask God to give you wisdom, from your position of endurance and patience and He will give that to you generously and help you to understand your current lot in life”!


    WOW! We tend to so look at life often through the eyes of our very safe largely middle class, very well catered for western world. We have running water, sanitation, endless public and private transport, heath facilities – hospitals doctors, medical centres, dentists – all of our western world extravagances and comfort…yet in so many ways, we are facing life completely bogged down with our first world problems!

    Hence the incredible wisdom and instruction packed into future verses about widows, orphans, a genuine Christian faith that systematically produces good works, the rich helping create ways to care for those less fortunate, or less wise.

    There is so much we can learn from the book of James.


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  • Genuine Faith Good Works 05
    2025/07/15

    James 1:5

    5 If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God (Who gives) to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given him.

    I find this verse remarkable - of course we are deficient in wisdom - we are constantly deficient in wisdom and we offer up our often-feeble view and opinion based on an extremely small piece of the total information - we don't know what was in the other persons heart or mind when they said or did that! So, we have AT BEST very limited information, but the safety net for us is "ask the giving God". This is God's default position – permanently listening, gracious and generous to the teachable - when you reach, God responds.

    Because we PERMANENTLY lack wisdom at some degree and at some level in everything we think, do and say we need to stay permanently teachable, we need to stay developing a righteousness consciousness and a God-within-me consciousness, and we need to stay gracious to everyone around us.

    This is very important : Colossians 4:6 - Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

    This also tells me to look for God in everything - from the very small to the overwhelmingly gigantic. So great is the lack of wisdom in each of us, at every level of life - we need to look for God IN every level of life.

    You say Joe, that's very harsh - I am actually smarter than that - I don't disagree with you, however, even the things we KNOW, there are still levels and layer to them that we don't know.

    My point being, develop the habit of looking for Jesus, looking for His creative and energising power in everything around you.

    For example - the God that created the iron ore we discover in the earth, who released the wisdom to mine the iron ore, and refine the iron ore, is the same God that allowed humankind to develop the scalpel that I have used to remove the hardwood wooden splinters out of my hand on many occasions. The same God created the iron ore and the hardwood tree. Now none of us know every minute component of the earth, the iron ore, mining, forestry, manufacturing, sales, marketing, packaging, surgical processes - you get the idea. We all lack wisdom and are information lacking along the way of the very things that we know and take for granted daily - so look for God in the very tiny and non-obvious places and I believe you'll more easily be able to identify Him in the more obvious daily life situations.

    James 1:5

    5 If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God (Who gives) to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or fault finding, and it will be given him.

    Lets expand this verse a little more:

    The overwhelming, vast majority of people would want to make wise decisions, one would hope. I believe that the Lord and our Holy Spirit wants to lead us into decisions that we LOVE to remember. I have been previously plagued with some decisions that I’d love to forget and I suspect most people have some kind of a filing cabinet in their hearts and minds of terrible decisions that they’d rather forget, as well – we’d like to lock that thing up and throw away the key! However, it can be very helpful to unpack some of those decisions at strategic times and especially with genuine help, for example, from a doctor or clinical psychologist or an appropriate professional in that field (which ever field it is) – and really get to the bottom of how that decision happened.

    Decisions emanate from a place of options or choices. If there wasn’t a choice or an option or another possible pathway, you wouldn’t need to make that decision.

    Confusion comes when there are too many choices or options available to you for consideration. All of these options have to be considered, or thought through – especially so with regard to more important decisions, life altering ones, financial, relational, vocational – these sorts of things...


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  • Genuine Faith Good Works 0
    2025/07/08

    2 Corinthians 4:18 - Amplified Bible - Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.

    Always looking to the spiritual side of life FIRST.

    Thinking about Acts 1:8 - a witness of and for Jesus

    Thinking about 2 Corinthians 5:20 - being an ambassador for Christ

    Thinking about John 1:12 - given power, capacity and ability to become a child of God


    All of this means that your life has MEANING - AND BEACUSE YOUR LIFE HAS MEANING, THEN, EVERYTHING MATTERS! EVERYTHING YOU DO, SAY, THINK, BELIEVE - AND BECAUSE YOU MATTER, EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU MATTERS THEN YOUR IMPACT IS ETERNAL FIRST AND WORDLY AND NATURAL SECOND. WHY BECAUSE THE NATURAL WORLD IS FLEETING BUT THE INVISIBLE SPIRIT WORLD IS DEATHLESS AND EVERLASTING.

    YOU MATTER, EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU MATTERS AND EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU THAT YOU ARE INVOLVED WITH HAS AN UNSEEN, ETERNAL COMPONENT TO IT.

    AND THIS IS WHY THAT GOD'S TAKES TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS AND TURNS THEM INTO ENDURANCE, STEADFASTNESS AND PATIENCE. WHY, SO YOU CAN GO THE DISTANCE IN JOY WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

    A TRUE CO-LABOURER TOGETHER WITH THE LORD.

    If you have these attributes and can live out these character traits, that's an enormously powerful skillset that you have built into your life. There is no limit to how incredibly stable, and as a consequence, reliable, impactful and probably sought after by others, you would be, in the world around you

    Genuine Faith, Good Works Life Key 5 - Choose to become the difference in many other people's lives. At the same time you constantly, exponentially and automatically raise the bar on your own life and that is a powerfully good thing - for everyone!

    4 But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be (people) perfectly and fully developed (with no defects), lacking in nothing.

    How does endurance, steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work - by you not avoiding the trials and temptations, but embracing them, managing them, investigating them and converting them from a trail or a temptation to something you have faced and conquered. I think this is why so many of the same situation comes round again and again in peoples lives - because they obviously haven't learned to deal with it last time it came round.

    An interesting quote from Dr Mike Murdock - "Patience is the weapon that causes deception to reveal itself".

    Genuine Faith, Good Works Life Key 6 - deliberately choose to embrace the process that involves trails and temptations - and choose the pathway and direction of becoming perfectly and fully developed (with no defects), lacking in nothing.

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