Once a week I am a tutor at Silena's school. Last week I had to help one of my students with her memory verse and it really got me thinking. Here it is:
Ephesians 2:8-10...For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
As I was helping her to memorize this scripture I was trying to help her to understand what it meant. The things in this verse we are told over and over again as kids but for some reason it really sunk in when I was explaining it to her.
We don't get salvation because we deserve it, we get it because of the grace and faith God has for each one of us. This isn't our right to have salvation it is truly a gift that God did not have to give us, I could not imagine what it was like watching as his child was tortured and hung on a cross for something he didn't do! All for us...
It also doesn't matter what we do or how much we give that gets us to heaven. God doesn't really care about that...somebody could give millions and have a really selfish and unkind intention. Somebody else could give all they have and give it with a cheerful heart but because they didn't give more than they can't get to heaven? That is why the part of this scripture about "no one can boast" is very important. God is telling us it doesn't matter how much we give or what we do that gets us to heaven. It is our love and faithfulness to him that gets us to eternity:)
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