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SOUL DANCE (excerpt): Your Work is NOT Your Worth!

by Tonja Taylor
9/20/2026 / Salvation

8 For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; 9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.] 10 For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]. - Eph 2:8-10, AMPC (underline emphasis mine)

Of course we feel better about ourselves, when we are doing work that satisfies. That is the Blessing of the LORD.

Just now, I found over 630 Scriptures on work (in the Amplified Classic Bible version online). Work is greatly encouraged and honored in the Bible. Whether paid or not, and brings multiple benefits, for us, and those we serve.

However, it's NOT our work, but the glorious truth that King Jesus chose to sacrifice Himself--to shed His pure blood for us on the cross, over 2,000 years ago!--that gives us our true worth!

(I've struggled with this through the decades, and I believe that most humans are taught this directly, and/or indirectly--that we're not worth much unless we work. But the core of that is not true. Babies don't work, and they can't. But they are precious and priceless, because their worth is in being a unique creation of God, Elohim, the Creator and Sustainer of all life!

And that is the way God thinks of every person ever born; that our worth is in our existence, our personhood, for each of us is created in His (unfathomable and multi-faceted) image!

God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. - Genesis 1:26, AMPC (underline emphasis mine)

⁶While we were yet in weakness [powerless to help ourselves], at the fitting time Christ died for (in behalf of) the ungodly. - Romans 5:6, AMPC

The bottom line is this: God gives each person ever born a free will, and it is our privilege and responsibility to choose life; to humble ourselves and choose to believe that we could never do enough good works to earn--to work--our way to Heaven!

Nor can we NOT do bad things, which all come from the sin nature that all humans were destined to be born with, when Adam and Eve, the first couple God put on earth in our era) committed high treason against the Most High God, Jehovah, in the Garden of Eden). Sinning (missing the mark; not attaining holiness that the Holy One Who is God requires)

Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men, - Col. 3:23, AMPC

If you (like me, although He's helping me learn to lean much more on what HE did for me at the cross, instead of my own performance!) like me, have struggled with trying to win and/or repay the goodness (read: Salvation by faith in the blood of Jesus, receiving Him as Savior and Lord, and Best Friend Forever!) of God, then you can say this simple prayer, and invite the wonderful Savior Who is Love and Kindness and Mercy (and much More) into your life, to help you rest and rejoice in Him, and receive His exquisite and unique help and friendship and saving Grace:

Dear Jesus, I choose to leave my old life and stop trying to be good enough for Heaven, and believe in what You chose to do on the cross for me instead! You paid the price for my salvation, through Your pure precious blood shed at Calvary over 2,000 years ago! Hallelujah! I ask You to come into my life and be my Savior and Lord and Best Friend Forever, and to help me learn Your wonderful ways, dear Prince of Peace. I receive You now, and thank You. Amen!

Congratulations on the best decision of your life! Now, Jesus is with you always, and will help you with everything! He is with you to teach you, guide you, heal you, restore you, protect you, provide for you, comfort you, encourage you, help you see the deeper beauty and importance of life, and more! Hallelujah!

Behold! God is mighty and yet despises no one nor regards anything as trivial; He is mighty in power of understanding and heart. - Job 36:5

34 And Peter opened his mouth and said: Most certainly and thoroughly I now perceive and understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons, 35 But in every nation he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him ansure of being received and welcomed [by Him]. - Acts 10:34-35, AMPC

Tonja and her husband seek to love and live the Word, and inspire others to do so. Learn about student success; faith; worship; holistic health; and more, from 309 videos: https://www.youtube.com/@riverraincreative599/featured

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