When we accept the God of Abraham as our God, and His Son Jesus Christ as our Savior and Redeemer, we are saved by our faith, but until we begin living out that faith by acting on it in our lives, then we are only a glimmer of the person we are intended to be; we are lesser sons and daughters of God. We are like a child whose parent has given him a dollar for candy, yet he walks around with that dollar in his pocket, never putting it to use, and never tasting the sweet goodness that was intended to be his gift. We convince ourselves that the dollar has value, but it is just a piece of paper until spent; until put to use. So it is with our faith; that without acting on it we actually have nothing because we have squandered the gift. Without praying, loving, showing mercy, or forgiving… what is the true value of our faith, and having accepted Jesus as our Savior? We are deceiving ourselves.