We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.
We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.
God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
We are the playthings of the gods.
We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.