Daily Devotionals

Devotional: August 7th

"We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works." - Ephesians 2:10.

If we are created anew, we are created unto good works. The world ought not to be angry with God for creating men anew; for he is creating them for this among other things that they may tread in the footsteps of ’their Divine Master and abound in good works to their fellow-men. The world, how ever, is irritated at the proposition that men need a special creation in order to become competent to bestow good gifts. It professes to be able to point to men, who have spent for tune, time, health, in a whole-hearted endeavor to do good to their fellow-men.

But consider that it is one thing to give a poor creature on his way to the gallows, a cup of water, and another thing to save him from the gallows. One thing to make the cell of a criminal comfortable, and another thing to save him from crime and put within his reach the means of attaining to everlasting bliss. The world, obedient to the instincts that God has implanted, often looks around to see what oasis it can create in the desert of this world, but alas! the trees which it plants yield no immortal fruit.

Until a poor creature has been brought to God, all that you can do for him is of comparatively little moment. If your benefits tend to this, even indirectly, well and good. You may exercise your generosity in such a way as shall tend to keep the man ignorant that there is a gospel, and that he needs it absolutely.

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