Philippians 2:13

Because God. After stressing personal responsibility in Philippians 2:12, Paul shows God at work in us. Johnson says: "God works in the converted person by his word and Spirit. His Spirit is a helper. He does not destroy our free will, for we may resist him (1 Thessalonians 5:19)." To make you willing and able. Robert Rainy says: "All efforts to divide the ground between God and man go astray. In the inward process of salvation, and especially in this willing and doing,' God does all, and also man does all. But God takes precedence. For it is He that quickeneth [makes alive] the dead, and calleth things that are not as though they were. Here we may say, as the Apostle does in another case, This is a great mystery.' Let us recognize it as a mystery bound up with any hope we ourselves have of proving to be children of God. And under the sense of it, with fear and trembling let us work, for it is God that worketh in us to will and to do."