GOD WHO WORKS IN YOU

The Christian who knows the Lord knows that there is much that the Lord would have us to do. We are saved for a purpose and we are always thinking about him and looking for ways to further his cause. Nothing matters to us like the work of God. This is the essence of faithfulness. If we want to be faithful to God, we must be consumed with God.

It is important to realize how many times the New Testament instructs Christians to be diligent to do the work of God. And there is nothing that God is pleased with except those who are trusting in Christ and looking to him and who are obsessed with him. When God is the most important thing in our lives, when we live only for God, then we can truthfully say that we are faithful to him. God has called us to work. We are to be “steadfast and immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord” (1 Cor. 15:58). This is what God wants. Is this how you are living? Are you looking for ways to serve him and please him? Do you care about his work upon the earth?

This life is not all there is. Will he find you busy for him? That is a question that should be important to us all. God makes us complete for every good work. He works in us to do what he wants us to do. The evidence of God being in us—the evidence that we have a saving relationship with him—is that we are working for him.

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (Philippians‬ ‭2‬:‭13‬). Do not misunderstand this verse to teach that we don’t have to worry about being busy for him, for since God works in us to do what is well-pleasing to him, we will do what he wants. God works in us and we know that he works in us because we are busy for him. Good works are the evidence of our salvation.

Dewayne Dunaway