Paul told us in Ephesians 2 that “we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do”. Here in Philippians, he tells us that “it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose”. When we walk with God, we walk in a pathway that is prepared beforehand for us. We don’t have to make a life for ourselves. God has made it already. We don’t have to cut a way through the jungle; God has already cut the way. We need only to walk in that path, and, when we do, we will walk into the things that God has prepared beforehand for us to do. But this is not all. Now, as Paul tells us, when we come to those works which God has prepared for us to do… when we meet those people… when we encounter those opportunities to love and share life with others, God will work in us for his purpose. He not only works in us to act according to his purpose but even to will his purpose. In other words, God, by his Spirit, helps us to see people as he sees them so that we can love them as he loves them and empathise with them. In doing this God further aligns us with himself and each step we take in his will leads us further down the path he has prepared for us. The yoke of God is truly as easy as Jesus said it would be (Matthew 11:28-30). There is rest for our souls in the path of God.
Ask God to give you the will to do what he wants you to do today.
Read Philippians 2:12-30
