"Your Love, Your Compassion"

       "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed not 

          only in my presence, but now much more in my absence

            continue to work out your salvation with fear trembling."

                                        Philippians 2 : 12

        This awesome reality 

        this is the moment for me to obey 

        trembling and fear to you Lord. . . 

        Knowing you I'm save 

        Knowing you I'm healed

        Knowing you, you set me free

        This is awesome reality

        Your love, your compassion

        I draw near to you

        This little faith

        Made me whole...

        There is always someone asking The grace of God "Doesn't the Bible tell us that we have to work out our own salvation?"

        Here is what Paul said: "Work out own salvation with fear and trembling" (Phil. 2:12). But we need to look at the context of that statement. 

        But that is not the end of the story. It is not our work but the Lord's that make it possible. The next verse says, "for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure" (Phil.2:13). So the Christian life is really working out or exercising the salvation that God has provided and he gives us  both desire and strength to do what pleases Him.

        Here is the amazing thing: when we let God do the work in us, then He enables us to work out His salvation.

        

        For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them (Eph. 2:10).

       He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him. (Eph. 1:4).

        Good works will be a by-product of those who knows God's unmerited favor. And the Lord gives us the will to love Him, obey Him and Serve Him. We can't follow the Lord without His first touching us. Jesus said, "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him" (John 6:44). We can't love Him without the Holy Spirit's giving us the love with which to love Him.

        Now hope does not disappiont, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us (Roman. 5:5).

        When you experience God's love, you will love. When you find His acceptance, you will accept others. When you experience giving, you will give. It all comes down to one simple thing: God work in it, and we work it out.

        We let Him pour in that we may pour out. First, we cooperate; then we respond. But the Bible makes it clear that we can't work to earn our salvation. Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness (Rom. 4:4-5).

        The Lord does not owe us something because we do good works. He will never put Himself in debt to anyone. We don't say, "I did it Lord. Here's my bill." If we work for something, it is not grace.

        There is nothing in us that even desires God without His putting the desire within us (John 6:44). God won't honor a person who says, "I'm going to pray, and I'm going to make it." God says, "that is the flesh, and I don't want it." God won't accept works or prayers that come from flesh."