Thursday, January 3, 2013

Work Out, Not Up, What He Has Worked In

Did you know that every work which God wants you to do He has already prepared for you to do?

"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:10)

God has made us from the beginning, yet has transformed us into a new creation through His Son Jesus (2 Corinthians 5: 17), and He has included within us the very works that He purposes us to do!

He is even at work in us to prompt us into the good works that He has set out for us to do:

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (Philippians 2: 12-13)

We are called to work out, or literally work down, the works that God has placed in us and wants to work through us.

How do we walk in these works? By faith:

"For we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Corinthians 5: 7)

This faith works in us as we see what God has placed in us:

"That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus." (Philemon 6)

Paul also prayed to the Ephesians:

"That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints," (Ephesians 1: 17-18)

Let us read and discover what God has already worked into us, that we by faith may work out His salvation in us to others and glorify Him!

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