How are you doing?

Are you doing good today? No, that's not bad English... If I said, "Are you doing well today?" I would be asking about your health, etc. But I asked if you're doing "good" today. James 4:17 says to him that knows to do good, but doesn't do it, that it is sin for him.

I've misused that verse before a little bit. For example, it is good for a person to go to Russia to be a missionary. Everybody agree? Well, then if you don't go to Russia to be a missionary then it is a sin, right? Because you know it's good and you don't do it...

I think the verse is more asking the question: What are you doing? Are you doing good, or are you failing to do good? There is a time and season for everything: reading Bible, evangelizing, fellowshiping, etc. and so there has to be balance when doing those things (you don't sit around and read your Bible all day, you have to evangelize too), but the question is: Is what you're doing good? Do you know that you're supposed to do things that are good (and not just vain!)?

If you know you're supposed to do good, and you don't do it - it's sin.

So, How are you doing?