Notice it’s verse 8 and verse 14. Notice it’s about good works, good deeds. Notice the saying is trustworthy. Notice it reads I want you to emphasize. Notice it says we must. Do you discern from this that we are commanded to be about doing good works and good deeds? And is there a qualification to guide us in our doing?
I hope I have given us something to think about today.
Make every effort, it says.
I have to ask myself whether I am making every effort.
What am I trading for making every effort?
What time am I spending now that could be then, making every effort?
Making every effort to please Father, to be an unashamed workman who knows her stuff — her Bible Stuff. Long ago, I made schedules and lists and the like to attempt to fit everything in, hoping to make every effort possible.
Today, it’s just daily showing up with prayer, study, and surrender on a more regular basis. I’m seeing improvement. I am grateful. Haven’t arrived, of course, but I am on the Right Road. And if you are reading this, I am trusting you are too.
Save from what?
We know for sure it’s not eternal salvation. Why do we know that? Because Only JESUS (and not we ourselves) saves from the penalty of sin and grants eternal life.
So, saved from what?
Could it be saved from false teachings? Maybe bad attitudes? Misunderstandings? Any number of physical/emotional maladies that we bring on ourselves because we fail to pay close attention to what we say and what we do.
Scripture. That’s what we are looking at here.
GOD The Father had this written for us, and to us, He must mean it.
Pay close attention to your life!
Watch what you watch and hear what you listen to.
