Defining Work!

Though some may sit exhausted, claiming to have worked hard all day, what is it they have really ACCOMPLISHED? Did they spend time and expend energy, but really do no work? When it comes to our Christianity could that picture be the same?

According to scientific standards, I could spend hours trying to lift a heavy object until I became completely exhausted and yet not be given credit for having done any work. However, according to the same standards, I could pick up a piece of paper from the floor and set it on a table and be credited with having worked. Work defined scientifically includes two factors: force and movement. Therefore, scientifically, unless I move that heavy object no work would be ACCOMPLISHED regardless of the effort and energy I have expended.

How about spiritually speaking? Has something happened? Is something happening? Though the work of God has ACCOMPLISHED great things, are we allowing it to be so specifically in relation to our own life?

In Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus, he exhorted. . .
"(8) For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, (9) not a result of works, so that no one may boast. (10) For WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS FOR GOOD WORKS, which God prepared beforehand, that WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM." ( Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV)

God's grace has been demonstrated. We are not saved by our own works, but rather by the work God ACCOMPLISHED through the cross of Christ. Praise God He is a DOER! However, having been saved by the grace of God through the blood of Jesus does not mean for us to then sit and do nothing! Paul understood and appreciated fully what grace had made possible for Him. He knew full well that without that grace He was lost. Compelled by the power of God's grace Paul WORKED HARDER in his labors (i.e. 2 Corinthians 11:23) and his life was constantly in "movement" ACCOMPLISHING the work He was called to do.

Let us remember the force (power) of God behind our life as we surrender to the WORKING OF HIS WILL. We were created in Christ Jesus for the purpose of DOING good works. Good works are what we are to be walking in. DOING the works of His Will are to define our life journey. There is to be movement in our life. May that movement be the direction the Lord is guiding so that we can continue being a part of ACCOMPLISHING His purposes on earth.

Have a great day MOVED BY GOD'S POWER IN SERVING HIS WILL!
Carl

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