June 6th — WORK OUT WHAT GOD WORKS IN
June 6th.WORK OUT WHAT GOD WORKS IN
"Work out your own salvation." Philippians 2:12-13
Your wil agrees with God, but in your flesh there is a disposition which renders you powerless to do what you know you ought to do. When the Lord is presented to the conscience, the first thing conscience does is to rouse the wil , and the wil always agrees with God. You say - "But I do not know whether my wil is in agreement with God." Look to Jesus and you wil find that your wil and your conscience are in agreement with Him every time. The thing in you which makes you say "I shan't" is something less profound than your wil ; it is perversity, or obstinacy, and they are never in agreement with God. The profound thing in man is his wil , not sin. Wil is the essential element in God's creation of man: sin is a perverse disposition which entered into man. In a regenerated man the source of wil is almighty. "For it is God which worketh in you both to wil and to do of His good pleasure." You have to work out with concentration and care what God works in; not work your own salvation, but work it out, while you base resolutely in unshaken faith on the complete and perfect Redemption of the Lord. As you do this, you do not bring an opposed wil to God's wil , God's wil is your wil , and your natural choices are along the line of God's wil , and the life is as natural as breathing. God is the source of your wil , therefore you are able to work out His wil . Obstinacy is an unintel igent 'wadge' that refuses to be enlightened; the only thing is for it to be blown up with dynamite, and the dynamite is obedience to the Holy Spirit.
Do I believe that Almighty God is the source of my wil ? God not only expects me to do His wil , but He is in me to do it.