If you have ever asked what God wants you to do, the whole letter of James will help answer your question. The final section, James 5:13-20, tells us what to do in four specific situations. In three of the four situations, the activity is the same: to pray. In the fourth, we have the opportunity to do for others what Christ has done for us: to rescue the wandering.
In his greeting, Paul previewed coming attractions in the rest of the letter, including the main event of Christ’s humiliation and exaltation.
God has always been with his people, in various ways and temporarily in Old Testament times and later and permanently in human flesh.
If someone hears a message but does not act upon it, sometimes we say that “it went in one ear and out the other.”...