I'm reminded today that good works can not come out of a desire to earn God's favor...for we couldn't do enough...rather good works, fruitful labor, these flow out of the deep and intimate experience of God's love and favor. You love like Jesus because you are his boy, not to become his boy.
There's a freedom there unlike anything else. We are free to know God's love without earning it or working for it. Freedom to be at peace with our heir status. There is peace to be who we are, too be ourselves.
There seems to also be a freedom from pride in this. Track with me and see if this makes sense. If my good works, my fruitfulness flows from within like living waters, then it is Christ at work within me that has caused those good works. Therefore the glory is his and we can give it freely. But if our good works come from a desire to get Christ in there, to convince the Holy Spirit we are a worthy vessel to make a home...then our actions flow from ourselves...we seek to make the glory our own. "This is what I did to get more of the Holy Spirit". This make sense?
I'm becoming more and more thankful and at ease with my beautiful brokenness. For His power is made perfect in our weakness.
Titus 3:4-7 ESV
"But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life."
There's a freedom there unlike anything else. We are free to know God's love without earning it or working for it. Freedom to be at peace with our heir status. There is peace to be who we are, too be ourselves.
There seems to also be a freedom from pride in this. Track with me and see if this makes sense. If my good works, my fruitfulness flows from within like living waters, then it is Christ at work within me that has caused those good works. Therefore the glory is his and we can give it freely. But if our good works come from a desire to get Christ in there, to convince the Holy Spirit we are a worthy vessel to make a home...then our actions flow from ourselves...we seek to make the glory our own. "This is what I did to get more of the Holy Spirit". This make sense?
I'm becoming more and more thankful and at ease with my beautiful brokenness. For His power is made perfect in our weakness.
Titus 3:4-7 ESV
"But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life."
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