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Man cannot improve on God’s work
When you receive from Christ His righteousness, like a wedding garment, it is perfect and complete. You cannot add to it your own righteousness which is as filthy rags.
“But I can’t see it,” said a certain cabinet-maker, as a friend tried to explain this to him. At last, an idea came to his friend, who, lifting a plane, made as though he would plane the top of a beautifully polished table that stood nearby.
“Stop!” cried the cabinet-maker. “Don’t you see that’s finished? You’ll simply ruin it if you use that plane on it!”
“Why,” replied his friend ,”that’s just what I have been trying to show you about Christ’s work of redemption. It was finished when He gave His life for you, and if you try to add to that finished work you can only spoil it. Just accept it as it stands – His life for yours, and you go free. Like a flash the cabinet-maker saw it and received Jesus Christ into his life as his Lord and Saviour.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works… “ (Ephesians 2:8-9). Salvation is all of God, and all of grace. We come simply with empty hands to receive. We cannot do anything to add to what our Lord has done, or to improve it. He has done it perfectly: it is finished!
Does this mean that after we are saved we are to do nothing? By no means! From henceforth, we are to live for Him who died for us; to live in newness of life, and to live for God’s glory. His work is finished, ours has just begun!
Thought: “It is finished” means “It is finished.”
Prayer: Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
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This audio CD is approximately 59 minutes, divided into 34 chapters. Edited by Dr SH Tow Please note that the last paragraph of some chapter texts may not be present in the audio tracks.
