Alan Adams - Return to Simple Church

LABOUR???

The good ole’ message of a full and free salvation from guilt and death through the deity and doings of Jesus has been shared around the globe for nigh on 2000 years, yet professing Christians are still trying, unsuccessfuly, to find peace through their “labour”.

Labour Day weekend reminds me of this fact. Yes, Labour Day is really meant to honour the workers in our countries who have laboured long and hard to this present day. But I’m concerned that so many religious people in our countries who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, are labouring arduously in the faint hope of attaining a comfortable level of spiritual security.

They are wasting their religious and moralistic labour. It is futile.

Not only so, but it is an affront to God who has accomplished everything necessary for our pardon and security through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. When we reject God’s perfect provision and generous gift, in our attempts to obtain peace by our own puny efforts, we offend the great Creator and ultimate Judge. And that is serious.

“When the kindness and love of God our Savior was revealed, he saved us. It was not because of any good deeds that we ourselves had done, but because of his own mercy that he saved us, through the Holy Spirit, who gives us new birth and new life by washing us. God poured out the Holy Spirit abundantly on us through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that by his grace we might be put right with God and come into possession of the eternal life we hope for.” (Titus 3:4-7 GNB)