Born Unto Holiness

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. – Ephesians 2:10

Those who have believed in Christ, and have been the subjects of the Spirit’s work, are now “created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that they should walk in them. God desires that His people should abound in good works. It is His great object to produce a people fit to commune with Himself: a holy people, with whom He can have fellowship in time and in eternity. He wishes us not only to produce good works, but to abound in them; and to abound in the highest order of them. He would have us become imitators of Himself as dear children, possessing the same moral attributes as the Father in heaven possesses. Is it not written, “Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”?

At first man fell, and marred his Creator’s work; but, in the new creation, He that makes all things makes us anew. Now, the object of the new creation of our race is holiness unto the glory of God. You are not new-made in the image of the fallen Adam, but in the likeness of the second Adam… The old nature does not care to pray; but the new nature prays as readily as we breathe. The old nature murmurs, but the new nature sings and praises God from an impulse within. The old nature goes after the flesh, for it is fleshly; but the new nature seeks the things of the Spirit, for it is spiritual. If you have been born again at all, you have been born unto holiness. If you have been new-created, you have been created unto good works. If this be not so with us, our religion is a mere pretence. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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