The Centrepiece

Hey guys! So it's a new week with new revelations ready for you to unearth =). I hope you're pumped, and ready to receive what God has in store for you!

Here's what I've been pondering about in the last week.

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 and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. (Phil. 2:12,13)

"continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling" Our Salvation is not earned, we don't work "for" it, but I believe that once we attain it through grace by faith, that we are supposed to ensure that it is centred and grounded in Christ. And we have it work it out, to make sure that what we believe our "Salvation" is, is what Jesus actually died for. Because if it mere religion, that's not it.

We are to, in the words of Pastor Brian "Keep the main thing, the main thing". And keep Christ at the centre of it all. And I think that can be hard sometimes, because a lot of things are trying to get our attention and especially in these times I think, it's a real danger to turn Salvation into what it is not. Our salvation is a gift, it is unfair- we didn't get what we deserved. It's a genuine miracle. And we are to take is seriously. Because God did.

I love that God never throws us anything more than we can handle, a goal to reach, a deed to be done without giving us the means to accomplish them. And the neat thing is, he says in his word that HE will provide us the will to be able to do so. Not by our own strength, but he empowers us to achieve what we never could by ourselves.

And that gets me kind of excited, and I hope it does the same for you. Because this is the kind of God we serve. Not some distant judgemental being, but someone who comes alongside us, knows that we are weak in some ways, so he GIVES us the will to do what he wants us to do. Kinda cool.

LL