Created in Christ for Good Works By Andrew Murray

Created in Christ for Good Works By Andrew Murray We have been saved, not of works, but for good works. How vast the difference! How essential the understanding of that difference to the health of the Christian life. Not of works which we have done. But for good works—as the fruit and outcome of salvation, as part of God’s work in us, as the one thing for which we have been created anew. If works could have saved us, there would have been no need for redemption. Because our works were all sinful and vain, God undertook to make us anew. We are now His workmanship, and all the good works we do are His workmanship, too. So complete had been the ruin of sin, that God had to do the work of creation over again in Christ Jesus. In Him, and especially in His resurrection from the dead, He created us anew, after His own image, into the likeness of the life that Christ had lived. In the power of that life and resurrection, we are perfectly suited for doing good works. The eye, because it was created for the light, is most perfectly adapted for its work. The vine-branch, because it was created to bear grapes, does its work naturally. And so we, who have been created in Christ Jesus for good work, may rest assured that a Divine capacity for good works is the very law of our being. If we but know and believe in this our destiny, if we but live our life in Christ Jesus as we were created in Him, we can—we will—be fruitful unto every good work.

Today’s Prayer Dear God, please help me to be faithful to do every good work that You call me to do. I know this is Your purpose and plan for me. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.