The Work of God

Let's settle something once and for all. Our natural human tendency is cause and effect. I do something good and it has a good effect. I do something bad and something bad happens. There is a spiritual principal here too - Galatians says "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap."

But when it comes to pleasing God - don't we all want to "do" something? Yes. Well - you can't. Plain and simple. The prophets tell us that all the good things we do are like those rags in the garage that you have meant to throw out and might catch fire at any time burning down your house.

I talked about this in a previous post as well - you simply can't do anything to please God. Your "works" are nothing.

But to satisfy those of us who really want to "do" something to please God let me tell you what Jesus said in a little verse tucked away in John 6.

"This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

See, it really is about Jesus after all. The work of God is not "obey all the rules as best you can." After you believe the important thing is to "be filled with the Spirit" - under the Spirit's power you can obey and you can do the things God calls you to do.