Works of Faith

"To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ."
~ 2 Thessalonians 1:11–12

It is amazing and utterly gracious of God in including us in the display of His Glory through our individual and collective lives reflecting the manifold facets and arrays of His Glory.

Works of Faith takes a paradigm shift in my perspective that it is not a work based on ourselves. The very fact that it is "Faith" means the work itself rests and relies entirely on God being the Great Doer and Accomplisher of the work. He initiates, supplies the necessary resources, we get the help, we get the experience of Him, He effects it into His desired will, He gets the Glory, we reflect His Glory in thanksgiving and praise.

It is a radically different starting and end point to see works of Faith as not of us or from us or in us, but all Him with us as broken vessels unworthy and undeservingly graced.