Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Created for Good Works.
Ephesians 2:10
. . . we are His workmanship, created in the Anointed Yeshua for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Our deeds and actions really reveal whether the inner man is good or evil. The prophet Jeremiah wrote a very well known verse
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
What appears less well-known, however is the next verse:
Jeremiah 17:10
I, YHVH, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings.
While it is our hearts that YHVH searches and our minds that He tests, we must take note that it is according to our deeds (and misdeeds) that He repays us.
Do we not remember the words of our Master Yeshua, the Anointed One, in Matthew 5:16?
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who [is] in the heavens.
Yes, indeed God has created us in the Anointed One for good deeds.
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