future

Snowed in by marking again. Oh well. Part of the job I guess. There is joy in this, but I must endeavour to find it.

Anyway, I read Piper who says that it is not gratefulness that should spur us to obey God, it is faith in future grace. In others words, an acknowledged dependency on a God that will sustain us and bless us. Really interesting because the Bible never said that we should obey out of gratefulness. That would be reducing salvation to a transaction which is reducing it really. It is by faith that great works are accomplished and it is by faith we shall live by.