Our Gift to God
Do you get the swarmy sentimentality here? Does it seem likely that God is needy and hopes that we will do good stuff for Him!
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posted by Robin at 11:58 PM
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Do you get the swarmy sentimentality here? Does it seem likely that God is needy and hopes that we will do good stuff for Him!
Comment below!
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I have always hated this saying! Nothing I have or can do is good enough to give as a "gift" to God.
But then, odonnao, what is the point of doing ANYTHING for Him, if all we can do will never be good enough? You might as well give up--don't bother to try. All you can do for him in the world is absolutely bupkes compared to all that He can do.
So answer me this: What are we supposed to do to please Him?
"gift" is sort of a bad word to put in here. It makes sound like it is God who is the needy one, but we can do things that please God. The whole worship and incense thing. It is not really a gift like we think of it, but we can do things that please God.
We can only please God through obedience, but we are only capable of obeying through the work of Christ in our lives. Do we give to God? Yes, but what we are giving to God is not our own--it is Christ's righteousness working through us. It is a service that we do for God, but we aren't really the ones to do it--it is Christ who lives in us. It reminds me a song I used to sing in school--it comes straight from scripture, but I don't remember the reference. "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet, not I, but Christ living in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave His life for me." It is not our nature that lives on, it is Christ's nature that abides within us that enables us to do good works which He has prepared for us in advance.
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