My photograph above of the African Crowned Crane is just one example of God's beautiful creations. All we have to do also is to gaze upon gorgeous mountains, and other breathtaking examples of our Heavenly Father's masterpieces, and we realize just how awesome our God is.
But "the work of God" stressed in this post is not about His amazing creation, but something else indeed. John 6:29 says:
"Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent."
Let's back up to other verses in John 6 so that we may see the context here more fully. Jesus had previously performed the miracle of turning two small fishes and five barley loaves into enough food to feed over 5,000 men plus women and children. Not only that, but there were 12 baskets of food left over. (John 6:1-14).
Later, the people searched for Jesus again, and when they found Him, He said unto them:
".......Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek Me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled." - John 6:26
The miracles which Jesus performed proved that He came from God and that He was the promised Messiah. That was reason enough to follow Him. But to follow Him because He supplied them with food, that was selfishness of a gross kind. Beware today, believers, that you do not make the same mistake: following Jesus for what you can get from Him, instead of following Him out of faith and belief in Him. We should follow Him out of extreme love for Him, and out of true gratitude for salvation from Him.
In John 6:27, Jesus went on to say to them:
"Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for Him hath God the Father sealed."
The people responded with: "What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?" - John 6:28
Jesus responded with the already quoted verse, John 6:29:
"This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent."
The people had immediately thought that doing "works" (plural) was what was required and was what Jesus meant. But Jesus referred to one work...... the work that pleases God... and the first requirement is to have faith in Jesus Christ. "A faith that would enable them to lay hold upon Him who is the Bread of Life: from such faith would spring a Christlike life."
It is not doing this or doing that, but it is believing. "The act of believing in Jesus, the soul's casting itself on Him with perfect trust, is here spoken of as a work, as something which requires the exercise of man's will and calls forth determination and effort. The attainment of abiding nourishment unto eternal life offered by the Son of man."
Believe in Jesus as the Savior.
"This is the work which sinners are to do; and doing this they will be saved, for "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth". (Romans 10:4).
We are living in the last days.
Believers should be in constant fellowship with the Lord through prayer and Bible study, thereby developing a close, intimate, personal love relationship with Him. That will enable you to not only live a life pleasing to Him and to help you grow to spiritual maturity, but it will also help you to do the Great Commission and bring others, with the Holy Spirit's help, to a saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Unbelievers should not delay in accepting Jesus as their Savior as His return is imminent. Not to choose Him, not to choose life, is still a choice....you are saying No to Him, No to eternal life with the Lord. You need to repent of your sins, pray for forgiveness, believe in Jesus with all your being and believe also in His resurrection ! It is not complicated, you only need to be repentant and sincere - and of course have faith and believe in Jesus.
Romans 10:9, 10, 13 tells us: (9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. (10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
"And this is the Father's will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day." - Jesus at John 6:39
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." - John 14:6
Jesus tells us the Great Commission at Matthew 28:19, 20:
(19) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (20) Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."
