I have heard terrors, I have seen even on televisions, heard on radio all about horrifying things happening around the world. People’s blood shed and many still circulates with hate and many earned powers of it. The more I hear this things, the more I become strong knowing of God’s existence..
Here: I would be representing the Book of James Chapter 1
And there are some who proclaims to be the truest religion of all. And see how they act on other people. The behaviour is just so impossible to explain. If Jesus is provoked by other beliefs, there are no bombs flying upon the skies, there are no people that have been slashed in the neck. And when others have been provoked, the world defend evil. And I am so angry that people are more religiously settled than having a relationship with God.
But if it is so, why would anger arise and why would hate feed so much frustration upon people that results blood shed?
James 1:2-8
Profiting from Trials
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
James 1:9-11
The Perspective of Rich and Poor
9 Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation, 10 but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away. 11 For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.
For you will distinguish them by their fruits…and that is the fruits of mostly called religions. Self-centeredness, talker, provocative, loveless, madness, anger, hatred and evil eyes and evil mind.
James 1:12-18
Loving God Under Trials
12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
I just sigh to think of it. Yet In the midst of all this desolation and hopeless times. There are many people who strive hard to speak for the weak. and there are many around the world who pull out from their own pockets just to help others in need. Among the selfish people who are busy on their own, there are lights and salt that rises to show Godly kindness towards the oppress, the poor and the needy. A religious and very traditional person is not what God wants. but what he wants is that we help others and act in kindness and in love. He looks at our hearts and see if there are good intents from it. See what God will do if you open up your arms to those in need.
James 1:19-20
Qualities Needed in Trials
19 So then,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30286a" data-link="[a]” style=”box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;”>[a] my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; 20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
James 1:21-27
Doers—Not Hearers Only
21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
And these is the Religious and traditional Symbols people must be set free… IN GOD, THERE IS NO RELIGION. BUT ONLY RELATIONSHIP THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.. HELP AND ACT IN KINDNESS ….LOVE IS NOT JUST A FEELING YOU FEEL BUT LOVE IS AN ACTION…
26 If anyone among you<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30293b" data-link="[b]” style=”box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;”>[b] thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.