Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.

Do you see that faith was working together with his (Abraham’s) works, and by works faith was made perfect? (James 2:22).

As ciphers, added one by one in an endless row to the left hand of a unit, are of no value, but, on the right hand, rapidly multiply its power, so, although good works are of no avail to make a man a Christian, yet a Christian’s good works are both pleasing to God and profitable to men.
~ ARNOT

Do you see that faith was working together with his (Abraham’s) works, and by works faith was made perfect? (James 2:22).

That was a very good illustration of the harmony between Paul and James on the subject of faith and works, used by the late Frederick W. Robertson, of Brighton, England: “Paul says, ‘Faith justifies without works.’ James says, ‘Faith without works is dead.’ ”Robertson thus reconciles them: “A tree cannot be struck without thunder; that is true, for there is never destructive lightning without thunder. But, again, if I say, The tree was struck by lightning without thunder, that is true, too, if I mean that the lightning alone struck it, without the thunder striking it. Put it in one sentence—faith alone justifies, but not the faith which is alone. Lightning alone strikes, but not the lightning which is alone, without thunder; for that is only summer lightning, and harmless.”
~ AITKEN

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