Lamentations 4-5, Proverbs 13:1-13, Ephesians 2
What God said to me – The world truly has no idea what it means to be saved or how to be saved. They really believe that if they live a “good” life or do “good” works or live the “best” they can, then they’ll be okay and I’ll accept them into heaven. Even those who are My children have a hard time understanding that their salvation is totally by My grace through faith and that even that faith was a gift from Me. There is nothing about your salvation that you can brag about because it was all brought about by Me. I chose you before the foundation of the world to adopt as My child and then extended you the grace and mercy and the faith to believe. Good works are a natural outflow of your walk with Me because I created you in Christ to do them and I gifted you with the means and opportunity to do them to bring glory to Myself as you minister to others. Your good works always point to Me and not to you.