Saved through Good Deeds 靠好行为得救？
Dexu Xia
Saved through Good Deeds
It is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8
In The Call of Service, author Robert Coles, exploring our reasons for serving, tells the moving story of an older woman’s service to others. As a bus driver, she showed great care toward the children she drove to school each day—quizzing them on homework and celebrating their successes. “I want to see these kids make it in life,” she said of her motivation. But there was another reason too.
As a youth, the words of an aunt had shaken this woman to the core. “She’d tell us that we had to do something God would notice,” she told Coles, “or else we’d get lost in the big shuffle!” Worried at the prospect of hell after the “big shuffle” of judgment, this woman had devised ways to “get God’s attention”—going to church so “He’d see me being loyal” and working hard to serve others so God might “hear from others what I was doing.”
I grieved reading her words. How had this dear woman never known that she already had God’s attention? (Matthew 10:30). How had she not heard that Jesus took care of the big shuffle for us, offering freedom from judgment forever? (Romans 8:1). How had she missed that salvation can’t be bought with good deeds but is a gift to anyone who believes? (Ephesians 2:8–9).
Christ’s life, death, and resurrection take care of our future with God and set us free to serve others with joy.
Why is it easy to mistakenly believe you must do good things to be accepted by God? How does understanding the gospel help you to love others better?
God, help me to trust that You’ve done what’s needed for me to be accepted by You
靠好行为得救？
你们得救是本乎恩，也因着信。这并不是出于自己，乃是上帝所赐的。-以弗所书2章8节
精神科医师罗伯特 ‧ 寇尔斯（Robert Coles）在他所写一本书中，探讨了人们愿意服事的原因，他特别记述了一位年长的女士服事别人的故事。这位女士是校车司机，常常关心每天乘车上学的孩子们的课业，查问他们的功课，也会为他们的成就而欢呼。她说：“我希望看到这些孩子生命有成就！”这是她主要的目的，但不仅如此。
她向寇尔斯表示，她年轻时曾因一位阿姨的话而深受震撼。她说：“我阿姨告诉我，必须要做些上帝看得见的事，要不然在审判的时候就会下地狱！”她很担心将来会下地狱，于是就做好事想得到上帝的关注。去教会是为了让上帝看见她很忠心；努力服事别人，好让上帝能听到人们对她的夸赞。
这位女士的话，令我感到悲哀。为何她不知道自己已经得到上帝的关注呢？（马太福音10章30节）为何她没听过，耶稣已为我们担负了罪的刑罚，使我们不再被定罪？（罗马书8章1节）为何她不了解，只要相信就能得着上帝所赐的救恩，我们无法靠好行为来换取这份恩典呢？（以弗所书2章8-9节）
基督的降生、受死与复活，让我们这些相信基督的人不必受罪的审判，我们可以自由地以喜乐的心服事众人。
为什么人们会误以为必须做好事才会被上帝接纳？
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