As Jesus talked with the rich young ruler in chapter 19 Jesus was asked what good deeds should be done in order to have eternal life. The question is about doing, because Jesus' response is not about loving God or believing, but about living life correctly among other people. We can tell the ruler still had a feeling that what he had done was not enough. He was lacking something. His own doing just didn't seem to give him a comfortable feel that he had really done enough to have eternal life. So Jesus simply pushed him over the edge with an answer that was impossible for the man to live out. Even if the man did that, would he feel he did enough?
Even though entrance into the Kingdom of God is a matter of believing not doing, without the doing is there really any believing?
That's what I hear this morning. What about you?
2 comments:
I hear God saying that maybe there is something in our life that we need to "do", or to give up, if it is causing a barrier between us and God. And "doing", or surrendering, that something may only be possible if we truely rely on God's strength,not our own.
Tammy
Well said, Tammy.
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