We must "do" - we all know that,
However "doing" may lead to spiritually "dying," when we hold to it tighter than we ought.
We are valued without deeds - we are complete, loved, perfected in Him - so we ought not hold our doing so tight that it becomes what we are doing.
The link here is that of doing and our value before God - which is wrong. Our value before God is set, and now, "looking unto Jesus," we believe. He will give us what we ought to do daily as a result, and within our belief.
"Faith without deeds is dead" - stillborn. What, then are "deeds without faith?" As this song suggests - this, too, leads to death - and it stings to admit it in my life - my seeking to obey actually reeks of death, when I am doing it this way.
Ira D Sankey
Cast your deadly doing down;
Down all at Jesus feet;
Stand in Him, in Him alone,
All glorious and complete.
It seems to me the same question for the sinner as well as the saint - what am I worth, am I a person of value? This is a primary question - of greater importance than "what must I do?" (or not do?)
Ol' Blue Eyes (Frank Sinatra) perhaps has said it best:
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
If not himself, then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
And did it my way
Yes, it was my way
