Friday June 21, 2024
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
The purpose of our being saved is here set before us. Most of us, no doubt, at some time or other in life, have thought that we were saved to be made happy. What else do awakened souls sigh for and seek after but to be made happy?
But nay, we are not saved in order to be made happy. That a saved person becomes happy is another matter. In fact, it is inescapable.
Nor are we saved in order to find peace, although in God’s appointed time we find that also. For Jesus has also purchased and won this for us by His anguish. “The chastisement of our peace was upon him.”
We are not even saved in order that we may take up the fight against sin, although none of us can refrain from doing battle against our sins as soon as we have been saved.
We are saved to do good deeds, our Word for today says.
Paul was afraid of legalistic works, but not of good works. These works are valuable, and not only because they are good. They are God’s own works, worked in us by God’s own Spirit. They are valuable also as weapons against sin.
My dear child of God, you who strive so hopelessly against your sins, listen: Do good deeds. Be gentle and kind to people and to beasts, yes, to plants also. You will discover that this is a very effective antidote to all sinful desire.
Good works, which God afore prepared.
They are near at hand. Do not therefore seek for something distant, something out of the ordinary. Seek first the good works which wait for you in your home.
First of all, friendliness. You can scarcely render a greater service to those with whom you associate from day to day than to be friendly toward them.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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