PB Devotion

My dear friends, as you have always obeyed . . . continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians 2:12

We are saved by the grace of God, which shows itself when we produce good works, the evidence of God’s work in us.

Working out your salvation can sound like a “work-your-way-to-heaven” scheme. But it’s not. Paul immediately goes on to say that the good works we do are enabled by God. So it’s all by grace, and yet we are responsible to do something too, in response.

We have to do the logical follow-through of having received grace. He does not say we “create” our own salvation. We just keep working it out, following the lead of God’s Spirit working in us because we have been made new through grace.

Grace does not give us an excuse to live however we want, if we are forgiven anyway. We also can’t ignore grace and try to work furiously to earn God’s favor. Salvation is all by grace, and our response is obedience.

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