Helen
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Why would OUR WORKS gets burned up? God appreciates every and any work we can do...
Simple...any work that "we" do...because we think it was a "good idea"...but it was not spoken to us by God...is "our works" not His.
I'm my circle of friends we call this an "Ishmael " work.
Ishmael was NOT a work of God...it was not directed by God...it was a work of the flesh by Abraham to get the promise...to "help God out".
How many of us have done 'good works' for God, believing it would be pleasing ...yet we did not do it "by the hearing of the ear"...therefore it was not a work of faith...
So many ( what I call ) legalists "Do so they get".
"If I do this, God will be pleased and I'll get brownie points in heaven for my good works ".
Only that which we hear in the ear and are directed to do via the Holy Spirit will count in God's eyes.
We will be weighed by the true intent of our hearts...