| OCR Text |
Show GOD AT WORK "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do His good pleasure. " (Philippians 2: 13) Salvation is an inside job. The Bible teaches that it is not what goes in but what comes out that makes the difference conforming but the inside transforming that changes us and pleases God. That's how being born again is possible. God enters us and in us. It is not the outside cause us to become new, inside out. It is after the seed is planted that the plant grows. It is out of the water that fish caught. It is from the grave that life are God works in unusual ways to makes what He wants us to be. The comes. gospel is preached, the heart receives it, 1 and God works it out in is at work in today. first thing our lives. God us That's the I would like us to remember. God is in us. He is not visible in and around us. We have not see'Him, Yet, we see the works of His hands all about us. That's why the sun shines, the grass is green, the snow falls, the trees tum colors, the flowers bloom, the animals creep, the birds fly, the fish swim, and we stand upright. God is in us. He is what makes us alive and vibrant. He is the source He breaths into the breath of life. He sustains us of all our being. day by day. He grants us love, grace, mercy, peace, and power. Oh, yes, He was here and He did dwell us among us in the flesh, but He left and sent His Holy Spirit to live in us and 2 keep us. "Preachers and teachers would make appeals, Fighting as their soldiers fields, When to their did yield, All I can within me." fire, great battle leading my poor heart say is I have "Something Have you that something that Have you that does die? something that burning desire? never on Oh, if you have it, that heavenly Let the world know that you have something within. • Something within me reigns, 3 that holdeth the Something within me that vanishes the pain, Something within me I cannot explain. I have something within me." (By Lucy Campbell) The second thing I see in this text is that "God works within glad Aren't you that God did not make us and this world and leave the right track behavior us and comes to us. alone? He set regardless see about us on of our us. That's why David sang, "The Lord is my shepherd for thou art with me." and Jesus taught us to pray, "Led us not into temptation." He is working within us to get our lives right, to change our behavior from worldly to Godly, to get us going in the right direction, to prepare ... 4 kingdom eternally. Ifwe would only listen, our homes, our work places, our community, and certain our churches would be better places. He ·us for His works within to cause us His us to repent, redemption. enrich our to convict to us help of our sins, accept us He works within us to give us hope. He grant us the promises lives and works within us to of His love. Then, the does within text says, that what God us is work for good. "God worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Joseph echoed this " when his brothers sold him into slavery. The brothers meant it for evil but God used it for good so that he was feed them when the famine things do work able to came. All together for good to those 5 who love God and are the called according to His name. He wants nothing less than the best for us. Because He works good within us, one day, he will say of our feeble efforts, "Well done, thy good and faithful servant." 6 |
