Action

It is summer so that means it's about time for me to jump back into the "Left Behind" series. I started a few summers ago to find out what the hype was about and then somehow I've gotten sucked in. Are they the best written books ever? No, but there are aspects that are fun and now I want to know what happens to these characters, especially after investing in them for about nine books now.

So I'm on to "The Remnant". I came across something last night that struck me. One of the characters said, "We are a people of faith. And we know you are too. We must also be people of action...We don't know what else to do." I think we in the Lutheran church miss that sometimes. We miss the action part because we are afraid of doing "works". Sure there a lot of people who volunteer with projects like Habitat, the soup kitchen, etc. Yet, how many of those people are willing to verbally share their faith? Is that not an important action as well? I'm not saying prostelitize at every given moment, but words are a part of action, and action is a part of faith. The action grows out of faith. It would seem that faith produces people of action. I know I'm often guilty of sitting on my tushy and letting faith die a slow death. Perhaps today I will live out my faith, give my faith some action if you will.