YOU WERE CREATED FOR GOOD WORKS — PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME
“Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” (Titus 2:14)
A Christian is a peculiar person who is always eager to do good works. He doesn’t try or struggle to do good because doing good is his nature. An unbeliever or non-Christian has a different nature as the Bible says (John 8:44).
You see, a man can only be like his father. As a Christian, your Father is the great God of glory, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. He’s good and His works are good (Psalm 119:68), and you’re just like Him for you’re His child. Jesus said, “The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do” (John 5:19) and in Acts 10:38, the Bible says, “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”
Now the Bible says, “For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us” (Ephesians 2:10 AMP). When God recreated you in Christ Jesus, He formed you for good works and called you to live the good life which He pre-arranged for you. Now you can heal the sick, save the lost, and bless the world because you have the nature of your Father in you.
DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE?
Make up your mind to display the glorious nature of your heavenly Father to everyone you meet today. God has ordained you to bless your world and as Christ’s representative in the world today, you should go about doing good for that’s what you were born to do.