Execution

"This is not your own doing, not a result of works," Ephesians 2:8, 9.

Right. It's not from our own exertion or from our own execution. Wait a minute ... what's not from our own production? Getting saved. Our own discipline, our own performance did not get us saved. No. It's God's gift. What's God's gift? Salvation. Life! is God's gift. A gift! A present from God. Received through faith. Through trust in God that God worked in Christ Jesus. When? when His power raised Jesus up from the dead and brought him to reign right there beside Himself. Trusting that that action flowed over into forgiveness and redemption of sinner men and sinner women. Gift of God.

We meet up with a brother or sister today recipients of the measureless gift of life forever in goodness. And together, we give thanks to God and serve him with gladness on into the eternity yet to come.