Completing calvary; 2 corinthians 6:1-12
As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
2 Corinthians 6:1
There is no question as to whether God is all powerful or whether salvation is always the work of God alone. Only he can save. However, the reality is that when he moves to save us mortals, he reaches out for one of us to work with him in that redemptive process. Read Isaiah 50:2; 59:16; 63:5; and Ezekiel 22:30.
We know that when he wanted to save Israel, he turned to Moses. And when he wanted to reach the Gentile world, he called Paul. He looks for those who will work with him to save their kind. We must be careful that our business is to work with God, not for him. He alone can save, but he has made human relationships in such a way that those who will surrender to him become his instruments in the salvation of the world. It is the surgeon who operates, not the scalpel. We are different, though, from the scalpel. It has no choice, but we do.
We can refuse to be instruments of God, or we can let ourselves become his fellow workers. What a high privilege to let the saving power of God work through us.
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