We are not saved by good works, but we are saved for good works. Our Lord Jesus went about doing good in the power of the Spirit (Acts 10:38). The widow Tabitha “was always doing good and helping the poor” (Acts 9:36). We are “not to neglect doing good” (Hebrews 13:16). Doing good is part of our witness (I Peter 2:15). Let not good works be wounded in the house of faith, dismissed as mere works righteousness. Faith and works are partners and not competitors.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can,
In all the ways you can, in all the places you can,
At all the times you can, to all the people you can,
As long as you ever can. – John Wesley
