Greetings today sisters!
I hope you're strong in the faith today!
I was pondering again how this faith life is active and it must be to be pleasing to the Lord and for us to make it to the end. So I share some scriptures that give us this picture. At the end, tell me if this sounds like just believe and you're good to go no matter what you do. So let it encourage us to keep pressing on as we must.
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses .1 Timothy 6:12
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.Jude 1:3
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.1 Corinthians 9:24
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.Hebrews 12:1-2
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.Luke 13:24
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Revelation 21:7
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.2 Timothy 2:3-4
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.Ephesians 6:11-12
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Hebrews 6:11-12
We do not want to be this...
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.Revelation 3:15-16
There would be many more scriptures with the same idea. No, of course we can never work our way to heaven. Indeed Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. All have sinned. There is no hope except if we believe and follow Christ with all that we are. He is our only Saviour! But we must abide in Him and be bearing much fruit or otherwise we will get cut off and that's not a good thing at all. But God must be glorified.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
John 15:1-8
May we strive to glorify Him and to obtain eternal life with Him one day!
Let us grow not weary in any well doing! Press on in all good things my sisters! Let us be strong and courageous for our Lord and His truth and be not ashamed of Him and His ways in this wicked generation. Love to you, peace and joy.
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