Dead Weight

Have you ever worked with someone that you feel just didn't pull their weight?  I think we all have.  Even my kids complain when I tell them to clean up, "I didn't make that mess!"  My response is always the same.  "Well then, thank you for not making the mess but I need for you to clean it up."  Fair?  Probably not but, how many times in life to we have to clean up other people's messes.  How often do people clean up our messes for us.  The courts are full of people that are there because they can't clean up their own mess and need a judge to do it for them.  Criminals are there because they choose not to live by society's rules.  So we have to clean up their mess.  Couples are divorcing at alarming rates because they don't want to clean up their own mess and they need a judge to clean it up for them and tell them where their kids will live ( I am convicted by my own words.)  Everywhere you look, people want to make a mess and then wait for someone else to clean it up.  Who?  Who is going to clean up this mess.  I think that is a question that God looks down and asks every day.  After all, He tells us in Matthew 9:37 that "the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few."  This morning I was reading in James 2.  I have been reading in James for about a month now and this morning there were a couple verses that just jumped off the page at me.  The first was chapter 2, verse19 "You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder."  The next verse was just above it.  in 16-17 it says "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed"  but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?  In the same way, faith by itself, if not accompanied by action, is dead."  Almost everyone I know (myself included) believes in God; but very few people I know (myself included) act on that knowledge as often as we could or should.  We all know someone who is dead weight at work or in society.  Are you dead weight in God's kingdom?