We can’t earn our salvation by doing good works, and yet when we believe and are saved we are meant to do good works. This sounds rather confusing doesn’t it? Well on the surface it may appear so, but it is really quite simple. Our admission to eternity is a gift, but once we receive it there will be good things we will want to do... not because we must, but as a result of our conversion, and the desire that the subsequent love of God instills in us.