Your Work of Faith

Your Work of Faith

"Remembering without ceasing your work of faith . . ." (I Th. 1:3).

"There is the whole of the thorny subject of the relation of faith and works packed into a nutshell. It is exactly what James said, and it is exactly what a better than James said. When the Jews came to Him with their externalism, and thought that God was to be pleased by a whole rabble of separate good actions, and so said, 'What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?' Jesus answered, Neyer mind about works. 'This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent' (Jn. 6:28-29), and out of that will come all the rest. That is the mother-tincture; everything else will flow from that. So Paul says, 'Your work of faith.' Does your faith work? Perhaps I should ask other people rather than you. Do men see that your faith works; that its output is different from the output of men who do not possess 'like precious faith'? Ask yourselves the question, and God help you to answer it." --Alexander Maclaren