Imagine you are driving down the highway and you make a stop at the lights. In front of you, there is a brand new Range Rover Sports, all black with tinted windows and wheels like you have never seen before. Two stickers interrupt the smooth slickness of the black color. The one on the right has the name of a driving school and their telephone number. The sticker on the left is bolder and has only four words. DRIVE THIS RANGE ROVER! This car represents the driving school in two ways.

Words and works.

The sign represents the driving school in words giving the information you need to get in touch with the school, but the car itself is the real advertisement! I bet if you were planning to enroll in a driving school and you saw this car you and many others would say, “This is the driving school I would love to go to!”

Our words and what we tell others about God serve as the sticker on the car. Our good works on the other hand are like the car. That is the signpost that people need to see as we interact with them causing them to give glory to God and want more of Him in their life. When we think about good works we think about feeding the poor, visiting the prisoners and the sick, taking care of the widows, and the like. Besides are these not the things that Jesus says He will look out for in Matthew 25? Well, there is more to it than that!

Sometimes as Christians, we behave like corporates. What do I mean by that? We wait for seasons like Christmas and Easter to go out and “give back to the community” Good works are things we do seasonally. That should not be the case, we have been created in Christ Jesus for Good Works which were prepared beforehand and we should walk in them not occasionally but consistently. This should be our way of life. Besides, there is much more to good works than what we think. The Bible tells us “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus.” Good works should be the realm that we live in. Good works should be the norm for us who are born again.

How do you do your work? How do you treat your employees? What are you doing in your community and neighborhood? How do you treat others on the road and in traffic? How are you in class? What we do in every sphere of life is important and it equates to good works. Helping others consider others as better than yourself, all are things that should be part of who we are.

The more we grow in God the more we realize that everything we do we do as unto the Lord by His strength under His authority and for His purpose!

Using the illustration in today’s devotion, if your good works were a car, what kind of car are you driving?

Does the car you are driving inspire others to desire to join the driving school? Does your character inspire others to want to be a Christian?

When was the last time you went out of your way to do something good for a stranger?