The godly woman is to live a life “devoted to good works” (1 Tim. 5:9-10)—or, as Jerry Bridges calls them, “deliberate deeds that are helpful to others.” We must be dedicated to good works, beginning at home, and flowing outward into the church and community.
As a teenager you have the time, energy, and opportunity to give yourself to a wide variety of good works.
And what’s really neat is that God has lined up good works for us to do. It says in Ephesians 2:10. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (emphasis added).
Remember craft time in kindergarten? On the table in front of each chair were little baggies filled with construction paper shapes; glue and safety scissors and Popsicle sticks were all there too. The teacher had prepared the difficult part of the craft. All you had to do was glue it together.
Good works are kind of like kindergarten crafts. God has them already laid out for us. We just need to do them. Which leads us to the question: What are the good works we are supposed to do?
Think about the deliberate deeds you can do for others and we’ll give you some ideas tomorrow.
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