He Works for Us -- So Stop Working

Christ did everything, and in Him we find everything, too:

"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8: 32)

The work is finished

Yet for years, I never felt at peace.

The settled peace which Jesus gives us, He gives us by grace through faith, not through our works.

There is no mixing law with grace, and yet many Christians believe that they have to add the Twelve Steps to the One Work which Jesus did for us.

Jesus is working in us and through us. He is ministering on our behalf, and He sits as our representative at the right hand of God the Father:

"Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4: 14-16)

This Jesus is not a product of our conception. He is a living, breathing person who ministers on our behalf

"Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." (Hebrews 7: 16-17)

and

"1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12: 1-2)

We stop looking at ourselves, which includes "taking our inventory", and we start seeing Jesus our forerunner not as a mere example of how we are to live, but rather see Him as our life:

"1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3: 1-4)

He is our life, and He is alive in us now, as long as we rest in Him and keeping receiving His gifts of righteousness and grace (Romans 5: 17)


Jesus is working for me, because I can do nothing of myself.

Oh, this wonderful Savior! He is saving us now. Not just from death to life, but in this life He is still saving us, still restoring us, still serving us.

He is working for you Beloved. So stop working, because He works and does a better job at it, too!