Completing Calvary
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.
—Dennis Kinlaw,
This Day with the Master
God alone has the power to save—but in His grace, He chooses to do His redemptive work through willing human hands. Dennis Kinlaw reminds us that throughout Scripture, when God moved to deliver, restore, or redeem, He called someone to join Him: Moses, Paul, the prophets. Not because He needed them, but because He delights in using surrendered people to reach others. In treatment, we often begin by receiving grace. But as healing takes root, we are invited into a deeper call—to become channels of that same grace for others. We’re not tools without choice. We are living, breathing souls with the freedom to say yes or no. And God, in His mercy, invites us not to work for Him, but with Him. Like a surgeon with a trusted instrument, He uses our lives—our wounds, our wisdom, our witness—to bring healing to others. What a sacred privilege. So today, don’t receive God’s grace in vain. Let it shape you, then flow through you. The world is aching for hope, and God is still asking, “Whom shall I send?” —DH
—David Hoskins, Founder & Care Guide, Sanctuary Clinics