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GOD WORKETH IN YOU
FRIDAY, MAY 12
Philippians 2:12-13

1 Corinthians 15:9-11

 

“For it is God which

worketh in you…”

 

GOD WORKETH IN YOU
 
Although it is important that we do our part, and fulfil our human responsibility, ultimately the only way in which we can and are able to have any obedience at all, is if God is the one guiding us! When we talk about our obedience, realise that it can only be done if God is the one working in us, energising us, strengthening us, granting us the grace, courage and conviction to have the desire to, and then to actually do of His good pleasure. This is the work of the Holy Spirit and it has been given to all true believers in the Lord.
 
Have you experienced this in your life? Do you have God working in you? Do you hear the still small voice of the Holy Spirit prompting you to turn from sin and towards holiness? Do you experience the Word of God speaking to you and guiding you? Do you have a healthy relationship with Christ whereby it is a desire to please Him that motivates and drives you? Are you manifesting the fruit of the Spirit in your life? These signs ought to be evident in everyone who is saved by grace.
 
We are able to obey the Lord and faithfully serve Him not by our own efforts, but only by the strength of the Lord. He enables us to have the desire and the ability to fulfil His good pleasure. We are not left alone in this quest for obedience and sanctification. Remember that without Christ we can do nothing at all. But with God abiding with us and the Holy Spirit guiding us, we can put forth this consistent obedience, desiring only to seek the pleasure of God and no one else’s!
 
Therefore, when we do serve the Lord, and sense within us the desire to live for Him, we must never be proud and think that we are good by ourselves. We must echo with the Apostle Paul, that only “by the grace of God I am what I am,” and “yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (1 Cor 15:10).
 
THOUGHT: I must never be proud to take credit for any good that I do.
PRAYER: Father, may Thou work a mighty work in me, that I will be able to both will and to do of Thy good pleasure.

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