“I know your works.
You have the reputation of being alive,
but you are dead.
Wake up and strengthen what remains and is about to die,
for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.
Remember, then, what you received and heard.
Keep it, and repent.”
Jesus to the Church in Sardis - Rev 3:1-3
*from todays reading in the One Year Bible

just because works don’t save us or  keep us saved, they are certainly very important to living for God! we peculiarly are addicted to living a veneer lifestyle which at best mimics authenticity (alive looking but dead because it lacks works). it ain’t about “looking” like a Christian. it’s about living AS one. that cuts against some serious grain on the easy wood of lifestyle. we must remember, keep, and repent.  it’ll take expended energy at the end of every day…