Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me

 Good morning. We like to take our own revenge – getting even with someone. However: judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment. But you don't know what he/she did to me. I know we think we will feel better if we take revenge, but in actuality we won't. If we show mercy, we will heap coals of fire upon their heads. Now for James' big question: what use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? Of course we are not saved by works of the law. You remember that Paul says that we are saved by grace and not by works. But if you are saved, you should be doing good deeds daily. We should be able to judge by one's fruit. Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. It's kind of like the glue that needs two chemicals for it to work. One is no good without the other. You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works. If someone says they have faith so as to remove mountains, and you don't see it happening, you're going to be extremely doubtful that he has that kind of faith. It's like when Jesus told the man on the stretcher that his sins were forgiven. That was easy to say because no one could prove Him wrong. Jesus might have had all the faith in the world that what He said was true – the man's sins were forgiven, but He could not prove it to those listening. But when He told the man to rise and walk, you could see that what He was believing was true. Father thank You that the reader has faith so as to remove mountains. He/she does good deeds daily.