While GOD Works In Us, We Are To Work Out Our Own Salvation.

GOD does not simply remove 

our ugly character traits!

(J.R. Miller, "Help for the Day")

"Continue to work out your salvation with
fear and trembling, for it is GOD who works
in you to will and to act according to HIS
good purpose." Philippians 2:12-13

Each one's battle must be a personal one.

No one can reach the summit, without

climbing the steep mountain path. We

cannot be borne up on another's strong

shoulder. No one can carry us up.

GOD does not simply put beautiful

Christian graces into our lives, as

the jeweler sets gems in a coronet.

GOD does not simply remove 

our ugly character traits--

and replace them by lovely ones.

Each Christian must persevere

through trials, troubles and temptations--

to all noble spiritual attainments.

While GOD works in us--

we are to work out our own salvation.

"To this end I labor, struggling with
all HIS energy, which so powerfully
works in me!" Colossians 1:29

"He who overcomes will inherit all this,
and I will be his GOD and he will be
MY son!" Revelation 21:7 

  
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