Working Faith

December 8

Some people feel that life has left them standing by the way-side while others charge ahead to the realization of goals and dreams they can only continue to wish to attain. Many are enabled on their path to self-realization by the freedom some countries afford their citizens to pursue and achieve their heart-felt goals; others are not so fortunate as to have that freedom.

But in the realm of the spirit; in the abode where the Living and Eternal Christ dwells, there is an assertion that substantiates a believer in the pursuit of goals and endeavors that reflect the will of the Savior who dwells within his heart. There is a plan, set in motion the moment He receives Christ that cannot be thwarted.

Paul delineates that plan very concisely in Ephesians 4:11-13 where he states, “It was Jesus who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and some to be teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service so that the body of Christ may be built up until we reach unity in the faith…” He has a job for each of us to do that He knows will be performed well because He has given us the skill set to do it to His specifications.

Paul goes on to tell us in this passage that this provision is to assure that those who enter the household of faith be “…built up in the knowledge of the Son of God, mature, attaining the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” It is not the desire of the God who loves us, who assumed the fashion of a Man and bore our sins on the cross, that we remain infantile in our knowledge and worship of Him. He desires that we be mature--so through our mature, united faith, others will be edified in His Kingdom.