Your Salvation

It’s a working it out. That’s it!

That hard work of confronting them lies with the Truth. That desperate stepping out in obedience, moment by hard moment. That choice for, and act of, and admittance that faith is what saves, not them deeds.

That’s it! That’s what it means to work out your own salvation. That’s living in abundance, living a life that starts and finishes with faith. That’s the kingdom-come, Christ-centered, fully-surrendered life. It’s a life that is working out it’s own salvation in fear and trembling.

That’s it!

To work out your own salvation is to find the One Who is Life, Christ Jesus Himself!

Working it out does it. Every time. It brings you to Christ. The only One Who can save anyways.

Amen! To Christ!

So when that burden and fear and despair come. That burden of not knowing how to exactly do this life of faith, that fear of not knowing whether those deeds you do come from self or not, that despair of doubting where your heart is at, before God Almighty. When all that comes, it’s a working it out that will bring you peace once again. It is.

Because it will bring you to Jesus.

But you ask, “How? How do I work out my own salvation?”

Because the truth is, you’re not quite sure about all of this. How you are justified by faith alone, apart from works (Romans 3:28). But yet faith without deeds is dead (James 2:17). And deeds without faith is a cutting off from Christ (Galatians 5:4). You can’t even wrap your mind around all of it.

But that’s why the working it out.

Because, in the working out your salvation, you find Christ. And the life of faith results, always, always. Yes, your stepping out in obedience by faith, that’s right, your deeds, they are what show that Christ is alive and well, in you! By faith, through works, in Christ alone. As you work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

That’s it!

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“The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.” - Psalm 118:14

“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, ...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.” - Philippians 2:12-13