“We are His workmanship” (Eph. ii. 10).
Christ sends us to serve Him, not in our own strength, but in His
resources and might. “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto
good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them.” We do
not have to prepare them; but to wear them as garments, made to order for
every occasion of our life.
We must receive them by faith and go forth in His work, believing that He
is with us, and in us, as our all sufficiency for wisdom, faith, love,
prayer, power, and every grace and gift that our work requires. In this
work of faith we shall have to feel weak and helpless, and even have
little consciousness of power. But if we believe and go forward, He will
be the power and send the fruits.
The most useful services we render are those which, like the sweet fruits
of the wilderness, spring from hours of barrenness. “I will bring her into
the wilderness and I will give her vineyards from thence.” Let us learn to
work by faith as well as walk by faith, then we shall receive even the end
of our faith, the salvation of precious souls, and our lives will bear
fruit which shall be manifest throughout all eternity.