Thursday 22 Oct 2020

October 22: Ephesians 2:8-10
 
Key Verse: Ephesian 2:10
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
 
Devotion:
Every day we should be getting up and remembering we are saved by God’s Grace. It is nothing we can do to earn this position other than having faith God will allow us to attain it because we trust in Him and believe His promises. God has created us and assigned us to be saved by what Jesus has already done for us – this is what He has done before we even got to know Him – because He knew us first!
 
I love knowing there is nothing in the way of me being able to be with Jesus in Heaven for all eternity other than the choice I make. Jesus came to save the world and has given us this gift; yet, if we do not open this gift, we have nothing.
 
So, when we, as Christians, say there is nothing we can do to obtain this gift, there is the choice we each must make which has to be done so we can open the gift! Other than that, there is nothing we can do to earn our way to Heaven. Jesus has laid down the path by which we get to Heaven and we simply must walk that path. It does not matter if we fall off and must climb back on, it does not matter if we can’t find it until someone shows it to us... The path is always there.
 
I know many Christians like to shout about how wonderful life is with God, and it is! Shout we must! But we also should remember it is because of this gift Jesus wrapped up for us which we simply need to unwrap. We can boast all we like about the gift after we have opened it, but boasting about how you earned the gift is not the truth...
 
Points to Ponder:
Do you tell others you are a Christian?
 
Do you boast for Christ or for yourself?