Works Of The Living

Romans 2:6-11 ESV 

He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality.

Our works are as integral and real to life in Christ as each breath we breathe in and out. To draw a breath requires that we must expel the last. One thing leads to another, just as one step leads to another. When we breathe in the Spirit, we walk with Christ. There is a natural flow of our new nature. 

If we are alive to Christ, we do the works of the living. The natural man is only capable of doing the works of a natural man. If we are reborn into the life of God, we become capable of doing the works of a son of God. We go from one glory to another. 

It is walking with the Son that leads us to the Father. Walking our own way will always take us somewhere else.