
Following Jesus includes Love. It includes Worship. It includes Prayer & it includes Gratitude.
Following Jesus includes so very many things. And it includes Following Jesus on every single day, not just the Sabbath or Sundays.
And Following Jesus also includes “Works”. Because “Faith without works is dead”. Because if we truly have faith in Jesus, we will want to do “works”.
We get to go to Heaven by accepting Jesus as our Savior. But a Gift can not be received, if it is not accepted.
And if we truly accept Jesus’s Great Gift Of Salvation, we will truly Follow Him. And that means that we will Follow God’s Word, we will live as God has taught us, and there will be “works”.
We won’t be perfect at any of this, but we will give it our all and we will repent when we do not. But if we live a life of loving and worshiping Jesus, we will find that the works come easily.
“What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”
“But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! -James 2:14-19