Good deeds - Here's one I prepared earlier

You know the famous phrase from the children's programme Blue Peter 'Here's one I made earlier'. When they were making those various handicrafts or cooking things on the children's programme they would often have one completed or part completed to show you, as there was not time to finish the whole thing in the time allowed on the show. Well, we can think of good works as being a little like that. God has prepared in advance certain good works for us to do – all we have to do is to bring them to completion. Here is the path says God – walk in it. We are not in the position where we have to do the whole thing ourselves. No, we simply have to let God work on us and bring about his will for us. That doesn't mean that it is easy – being worked on is just as difficult as working, worse in some ways. So it is not us working hard to win God's favour. No, as Christians we have already known God's favour. What we now need to do is to live it out. All that is necessary is there, once we trust in Christ.