Work Out Your Salvation

Philippians 2:12-13 calls believers to “work out your salvation.” This doesn’t mean working for salvation, which is a free gift of grace, but letting what God has placed inside show on the outside, just as a little boy once wondered if Jesus should “stick out” if He lives in us. The reminder is simple: don’t expect God to do what He expects you to do. Working out our faith demonstrates it, brings blessings, and glorifies God, whether through the walls of Jericho, the widow’s oil, and the blind man’s healing, or through the church serving together with shoebox gifts, benevolence, hospitals, and wells.