Doing Your Best

 

Doing Your Best

Comments on Galatians with an ear to Luther’s commentary

Scripture Text: Galatians 2:20 and Colossians 3:23-24

Series: Comments on Galatians

Today's Scripture Jigsaw

Do the best that you can do; that’s all God expects. That sounds nice but it is not true. What God expects is actually far simpler than doing your best. God wants you to admit that your best is not good enough and that you need his grace instead of your best efforts. God does not want a moral people or a hard-working people. He wants a holy people. That is why your best will never be good enough. Whatever you do — no matter how fine the effort — will be unholy simply because it originates in you. But if the Spirit of Christ is in you, motivating an action, no matter how botched your attempt, it will be holy because it stems from the Holy God. Depend upon the grace of God, and morality and good works will follow; but it will still be by the grace of God that you are saved from sin and death — and self. Do your best for the Lord but do not count on it for salvation. 

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