character of God, expressed and enacted by the power and
grace of God.
Whenever we come across the New Testament
admonitions exhorting us to "know good" and to "do
good," we must always remember that the dynamic for
doing so is in God, in Christ.
Romans 16: 19 - "I want you to be wise in what is
good." How? By allowing God to continue to reveal His
goodness.
Gal. 6:9,10 - "let us not lose heart in doing good...let us
do good to all men." How? By the dynamic of God's doing
of His goodness in and through us.
I Thess. 5:21 - "hold fast to what is good; abstain from
every form of evil." What is good? That which expresses
God's character of goodness. How are we going to hold fast
to that and abstain from every form of evil? Three verses
later in I Thess 5:24 we read, "Faithful is He who calls you,
He also will bring it to pass."
II Thess. 3:13 - "do not grow weary of doing good."
What is to weary us if we recognize that it is not our
struggling and striving to perform goodness? It is possible
to grow weary of the fact that so few seem to recognize and
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