What needs around you touch your heart? What’s one thing you can do to help others—even if it seems insignificant?
周遭有什么事令你有所感触？即使看似微不足道，你可以如何帮助人呢？
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?James 2:14
我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？-雅各书2章14节
Thomas knew what he needed to do. Having been born to a poor family in India and adopted by Americans, upon a return trip to India he witnessed the dire needs of the children in his hometown. So he knew he had to help. He began making plans to return to the US, finish his education, save a lot of money, and come back in the future.
汤玛士出生于印度的贫穷家庭，后来被一个美国家庭领养。在一次回印度期间，他目睹了家乡许多孩童的急迫需要，知道自己应该给予协助。于是，他打算回到美国完成学业，积存一大笔钱，然后再回去印度帮助他们。
Then, after reading James 2:14–18 in which James asks, “What good is it . . . if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?” Thomas heard a little girl in his native country cry out to her mother: “But Mommy, I’m hungry now!” He was reminded of the times he had been intensely hungry as a child—searching through trash cans for food. Thomas knew he couldn’t wait years to help. He decided, “I’ll start now!”
当他仍在印度时，他读到雅各书2章14节说：“若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？”接着，他听到附近有个小女孩哭着对母亲说：“但是妈妈，我现在好饿！”这令他想起小时候常饥饿难耐，甚至在垃圾桶翻找食物的景况。汤玛士知道自己不能等到几年后才提供帮助，他决定：“我现在就要开始！”
Today the orphanage he began houses fifty well-fed and cared-for children who are learning about Jesus and getting an education—all because one man didn’t put off what he knew God was asking him to do.
如今，他创建的孤儿院住了50名孩童，他们衣食无缺，并且可以受教育，学习认识耶稣。这些人得帮助，都是因为汤玛士清楚知道上帝要他做的事之后，立即采取行动。
James’s message applies to us as well. Our faith in Jesus Christ provides us with great advantages—a relationship with Him, an abundant life, and a future hope. But what good is it doing anyone else if we don’t reach out and help those in need? Can you hear the cry: “I’m hungry now!”
雅各的话也同样是对我们说的。相信耶稣基督确实让我们得着极大的益处，就是能与上帝建立关系、有丰盛的生命，以及拥有未来的盼望。但如果我们没有向人伸出援手，没有帮助那些有需要的人，这些益处对其他人有什么帮助呢？你是否听见有人正哭着说：“我现在好饿！”
Direct my steps, O God, toward the actions You want me to take to help someone in need. Thank You for allowing me to be a part of Your work on earth.
喔，主啊，求祢指引我的脚步，顺从祢的带领，采取实际的行动，帮助有需要的人。谢谢祢让我能参与祢的工作。

James 2:14-18 NIV

2 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds.

雅各书 2:14-18 

2 我的弟兄们，若有人说自己有信心，却没有行为，有什么益处呢？这信心能救他吗？ 15 若是弟兄或是姐妹赤身露体，又缺了日用的饮食， 16 你们中间有人对他们说“平平安安地去吧，愿你们穿得暖、吃得饱”，却不给他们身体所需用的，这有什么益处呢？ 17 这样，信心若没有行为就是死的。 18 必有人说：“你有信心，我有行为。”你将你没有行为的信心指给我看，我便借着我的行为，将我的信心指给你看。

INSIGHT 

灵粮透视

James’s letter begins, “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations” (1:1). So who was James? Evangelical scholars are largely convinced that he was the half-brother of Jesus. In Mark 6:3, Jesus’s siblings are listed, and James is among them. While those siblings were slow in coming to faith, Paul tells us that Jesus appeared to James after the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:7; Galatians 1:19). As a result, James and his brothers are listed among the believers in Christ in the upper room in Acts 1:14. Following the execution of James the son of Zebedee and the brother of John (Acts 12:2), Christ’s brother James would become a leader in the church (v. 17), arbitrating the first church council in Jerusalem (15:13–29). Sometimes called “James the Just,” he was martyred for his faith around ad 60.
雅各书一开始便如此写道：“作上帝和主耶稣基督仆人的雅各，请散住十二个支派之人的安”（1章1节）。这个雅各是谁呢？大多数的福音派学者认为，他是耶稣的弟弟。马可福音6章3节列出了耶稣的弟弟们的名字，雅各也名列其中。虽然耶稣的几个弟弟起初并不相信耶稣，但保罗告诉我们，耶稣在复活后曾向祂的弟弟雅各显现（哥林多前书15章7节；加拉太书1章19节）。所以使徒行传1章14节提到在楼房上祷告的信徒中，就包括了雅各和他几个弟弟。当西庇太的儿子、约翰的哥哥雅各被处死之后（使徒行传12章2节），基督的弟弟雅各成为教会的领袖（ 17节），并在耶路撒冷第一次教会会议中做出了裁决（15章13-29节）。雅各有时被称为“公义者雅各”，大约于公元60年为主殉道。
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