Verse of the day: John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that
you believe in Him whom He sent.”
So often, as followers of Jesus, we view the
Gospel message as something to be preached to others, which it is; however, the
Gospel message is also a message that we, regardless of how long we have been
saved, need to live out each day. Regardless of how mature we are in our
relationship with the Lord, we must never forget that the Gospel is the
foundation of our faith. When the people asked what they should do to work the
works of God, the answer they received was to believe. Our relationship with
God is grounded in our belief in Jesus as Savior, and what He did for us on
Calvary (Jn 3:16). Our salvation came to us by God’s grace, and not by anything
we did to deserve it (Eph 2:8-9). As born again Christians, our faith, or
belief in Christ, does not end there. In all that we do, in our daily living,
and in serving Him, the foundation is still faith. Hebrews 11:6 tells us, “But
without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who
comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a
rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” Everything that we do must
be based on the fact that we are trusting God’s promises that we are His and
cannot be taken out of His hands (Jn 10:29-30). When we are called to love our
enemies, when we are persecuted, when we are called to help others, when we are
in distress, when we have a need, when we are serving and need courage to speak
or do something in the Name of our Lord, we need to be grounded in our faith,
and believe that Jesus is who He says He is, and that He will do what He
promised He would do. When we do our good works, which we are called to and
created for in Christ Jesus (Eph 2:10), we must do them out of faith; and by
doing them we show our faith (Jm 2:18), because we show that we are trusting
God in those times when He is asking us to perform those works in seemingly
impossible circumstances, and probably at the height of being persecuted. The bottom
line is that for us, God’s children, the Gospel message is not something we put
in our pocket, and only take it out when we are going to share it with others.
The Gospel message is something we live out every single day, because for some,
we are the only Gospel they have ever read. Let us live by faith, and glorify
God by not only proclaiming that Jesus died for us and offers eternal life, but
let us also live as Christians who have already accepted Jesus’ offer, and are
now living as those who are already heaven-bound. May it be reflected in our
attitudes, actions, words, and deeds, all for the glory of God.
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