In fact, this is what I need to hear in church every Sunday.
Excerpted from a post on Little Pieces Of Ordinary
Our work does matter, it matters eternally.
It just doesn’t buy us salvation.
To all who have ever clung to what they can do to define who they are, God whispers:
Do nothing.
Believe in Me.
Trust Me.
Love Me.
Soak it up.
Now, out of that faith and love and this wild grace, go and do the work I have created you to do. Not desperately, fearing failure, but joyfully, in confident faith that you cannot fail.
The difference is not in the amount of work we do or obedience we give. When we soak up this wild grace, we will actually do more work, be more obedient, be radically changed. Just not out of our own shallow well of self-effort, but out of the unfathomably deep well of God’s power at work in us.
And we do need those five-step exhortations to change in different areas of our lives. There are incredibly helpful principles available to help us improve. But we need them to be soaked in the gospel of grace to show us that this is the way to true change.
What we really need to hear at church is less about what we need to do for God and more of what God has already done for us.
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