It took me about 15 minutes to read the first half of Paul’s Ephesian letter. I like the phrase Eugene Peterson used to define the word grace in verse 8 of chapter 2. “Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish.” That is such a fantastic picture of what God does in the process of bring each person to salvation; it’s all about God working in us. That appears to be one of the biggest struggles I’ve seen in my walk of faith, and that I have observed in other Christians. I want to think that I had something to do with my salvation. But all I could do is trust God to work and get out of his way. And any good work that I accomplish is done by the same mechanism; God working in me. But this truth also takes a great burden off of my heart; since God brought me into salvation it is also his working that will overcome my tendency to sin and keep me in the righteousness of Christ. That is what the cross provided for me; security beyond my imagination.
Stuart
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