Righteousness (3)
  1. It's a new year, and you are still the same you: a sinner who is simultaneously perfect in every way because Christ declares it to be so.
  2. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  3. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.