“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”~ Phil. 2:13,12
My dear, departed wife used to say about diets, “Any diet will work, if you work it.” Passivity doesn’t turn the lights on, or start a car nor most anything else, without us doing our part. God put the plants, herbs, and trees in the earth, but man had to dress and keep them. Isaiah tells us, “ LORD...thou also hast wrought all our works in us.” That is, Isaiah owned it as his works, but added it was God who first put it into his heart. The teacher gives the problem but the student must work it out. God will work it in you but will not work it out for you!
Marriages will work, if we work on them; Christian sanctification will work, if we work at it; Prayer works, if we’re willing to work by putting shoe leather to many of them; wishing doesn’t change things, but almost always work does!
Most certainly we must first look to the Lord , but more times than a few we have a responsibility. For example, overcoming the devil, there must be a submission to God on our part, but also we must resist the devil before he will take flight. God has a part and so do we. God will do His part, you can be sure. But not ours!
“God will provide the shovel, but we must do the digging.”
by an Aged Saint
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Exactly, Richard. Faith without works is dead.