Mission Prepared For Us

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 2:10

Straighten Up

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

What then?  Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?  May it never be!

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

Romans 6:14-19

Not Because We Are Good, Because God Is Good

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 

Titus 3:4-7

Be Strong

You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:1

God Is With Us

Who will separate us from the love of Christ?  Will tribulation, or distress, or peril, or sword?  But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor things present, not things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Romans 8:35, 37-39.

Be Glad, Sing!

Let the glory of the Lord endure forever;

Let the Lord be glad in His works;

He looks at the earth, and it trembles;

He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;

I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Let my meditations be pleasing to Him;

As for me I shall be glad in the Lord….

Bless the Lord, O my soul.

Praise the Lord.

Psalm 104:31-35