“God works in you to desire his will and work for his good pleasure.” (pp Phil. 2:13). “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever” (Ps.138:8). “With confidence I affirm, Abba will complete the good work he began in you, and that he is always at work in all things for your good” (pp Phil.1:6, Rom.8:28).
Heavenly Father, what peace these affirmations from your Word bring us. You are at work all the time—in us, around us, above us, beneath us, behind us, and through us—when we see it and when we don’t, when we’re wide awake and when we’re deep asleep.
This doesn’t make us passive; it makes us yours. Hallelujah, we can worry less and worship more. We can fear failure less and love grace more. We can do our work from your love, not for your love. We can rest in Jesus’ finished work for us and in your ongoing work everywhere else. This changes everything, Abba.
May 2026 be a year in which we learn to say with the Apostle Paul: “By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but God was working by his grace through me.” (1Cor.15:10).
Confident you will accomplish your purpose in us and for us, and being certain of your steadfast, unwavering, lavish, “we-can-never-earn-or-lose-it” love—we want to spend the rest of our days living and loving, working and serving your glory. Breaking a sweat by grace is 10,000 times better than sweating with pride, doubt, guilt, and fear. So Very Amen.
