Do Good Work

Romans 2.6-8
⁶God “will give to each person according to what he has done.” ⁷To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. ⁸But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.

The phrase “will give to each person according to what he has done” is repeated two other times in the OT (Ps. 62.12 & Prov. 24.12).  This princinple is so important and it all comes down to the idea that God looks at the heart of men, not just thier actions.

In our culture, we reward work regardless of the motive.  ”As long as stuff is getting done” we say.  This is not the way God works. We cannot separate our doing and our being.  What we do should, and eventually will, show who we really are.

I found it interesting that Paul describes doing as “seeking glory, honor and immortality.”  He did not say it was being a good person, doing good things for others, planting a church, preaching, giving to the poor, or all the other “good” works we are to do.

We are to seek God and His plan.

It is by this standard we will be judged; not how hard we worked at “doing,” but how hard we worked at “seeking!“