Do We Know

Do We Know
Author: Mark V. Markov

Sometimes it seems
For some believers
The easy way
Is to say
To the one in need
Let God bless him or her.

But do we know?
That God uses people to help others
And if every person
Walks away
From the one in need
And just say
Let God bless him or her
Yet they are able to help,
Before God they become iresponsible

By walking away
From the person in need
Without helping
Without showing
Any love and compassion

Sometimes it seems it's so easy
To just walk away
And say
Let God bless him or her

But God always says
In the Holy Scriptures
I made you!
I created you to be
A good steward of the earth.
You were created for good works.
So you would walk in them
Meaning
That you should always practice them
The same way
As you are always walking
You are to always practice them

Sometimes it seems
It's so easy to shift
The responsibility
To ignore another in need
To just walk away
And then say to God
Am I my brothers keeper?

Do we know?
That God made us
His representatives
His ambassadors
Here on earth

God wants us
To be responsible
God wants us
To care about others
God wants us to represent Him
God wants us to have love

Love is not to ignore all needs
Of the one in need
To just shake their hand
And say
See you next Sunday ok
Your tithe
Don't forget to pay

For Jesus Christ
Set an example of love
With action of sacrifice
The sacrifice of His life for us
So we can be His children
So now as we are adopted into God's family
We always need to truly represent God

With action Jesus Christ showed love
And He wants us
To love others with action
As Apostles John and James say
To love in truth and in deed
For faith without works is useless
Faith without works is dead

We can never please God
With a useless dead faith
But we can always please God
With a useful living faith

Do we know
That God made us
His representatives
His ambassadors
Here on earth

God wants us
To be responsible
God wants us
To care about others
God wants us to represent Him
God wants us to have love...


Ephesians 2:10 (ESV)

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Matthew 25:14-30 (ESV)

14 "For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.

15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.

16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.

17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.

20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying,
'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.'

21 His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.You have been faithful over a little;
I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'

22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying,
'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.'

23 His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.
You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much.
Enter into the joy of your master.'

24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying,
'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow,
and gathering where you scattered no seed,

25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground.
Here, you have what is yours.'

26 But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant!
You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?

27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers,
and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.

29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance.
But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness.
In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'


1 John 3:16-17 (ESV)

16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us,
and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

17 But if anyone has the world's goods
and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

18 Little children,
let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.


James 2:14-26 (ESV)

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,

16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?

17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;

23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of God.

24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.