re so far so good this may be a really dumb one but i ll ask it anyways christians know that they can never live up to the requirements of god right i may be wrong but that is my understanding but they still try to do it doesn t it seem like we are spending all of our lives trying to reach a goal we can never achieve i know that we are saved by faith and not by works but does that mean that once we are saved we don t have to do anything i think james tells us that faith without works is dead paraphrase how does this work short reply we can never achieve perfect health yet we always strive for it we don t seek to do god s will because we re forced to we follow his way because his way is best the reason it s hard is because we are flawed not because he s unreasonable but we seek to follow his way because we want to improve ourselves and our lives mark
