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Do you feel like your plate is so full that you can’t do one more thing, dear child of God?
I understand. Last week I felt like I needed to quit everything else and just focus on homeschooling my kids! The tasks of house keeping, teaching, parenting, working, and ministry are never done. Our to-do lists just get longer and longer, and we are often overwhelmed!
But God tells us to do good works–not for our salvation, but from our salvation.
I’ve been studying the book of Titus in the First 5 App over the last few weeks. Several times, Paul instructs Titus to make sure the Christians in Crete (and Christians today) are doing good works. (Titus 2:7, 2:14, 3:1, 3:8, 3:14)
Good works–like the kinds of works in Matthew 25? Feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, visiting the sick and prisoners, housing the strangers?
Yes and no.
Right after Paul explains how we are saved by grace and not works in Ephesians 2:8-9, he says we are created for good works in Ephesians 2:10.
Maybe God is calling you to do more. Each believer is God’s own masterpiece created for a specific purpose and a particular set of good works. Are you fulfilling His purpose in you?
Or maybe, in your current season, you are already doing the good work He has prepared for you: The good work of faithfully preparing meals, washing clothes, cleaning bathrooms, wiping noses, changing diapers, chauffeuring preteens, and so on.
Don’t discount the daily work God has given you. If you are working faithfully for His glory, you are doing good works. That doesn’t mean you should just sit back let others do all of the more visible good works. Be ready and willing to meet urgent needs when God gives you the opportunity and ability, but rest in knowing Jesus’s finished work on the cross saved you, and He is doing a good work in and through you.
“And let people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful. Titus 3:14 ESV
Let go of the pressure to perform when you feel like you can’t possibly do one. more. thing. Rest in the daily good works He has prepared for you in love. Remember, dear child of God, His yoke is easy and His burden is light.
