We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand. - Ephesians 2:10
When you
love someone deeply, you long to share in a common purpose. In a similar way, your
heavenly Father loves you and yearns for your willing participation in His glorious
purposes. Of course, no one is indispensable to God, but His destiny for each of our lives
cannot be fulfilled without our active cooperation.
We are sometimes reluctant to emphasize this fact. We freely quote Ephesians 2:8-9,
"By grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." But not wishing to sound
contradictory nor to appear boastful, we stop there and avoid verse 10 about "good
works." Yet Paul's meaning is clear - although we're not saved by good works,
we are saved for good works.
Mysterious as it is, God has planned our good works in advance, so that as we fulfill them
"we are God's fellow workers" (1 Corinthians 3:9). The great maker of the
Stradivarius violin rightly said of God: "He could not make Antonio Stradivari
violins without Antonio."
God has chosen to bless others uniquely through you, and you can do what no one else can
do. But when He does use you, be careful to give Him all the glory.
-JEY
When we are partners with the Lord,
Our work is not in vain;
Eternal blessings will abound
His good will be our gain.
-Sper
Faith never stands around with its hands in its pockets.