Listen and Believe!

“We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son! Listen and believe!’”
Gerhard O. Forde, Justification by Faith (Philadelphia, 1983), page 22.

Some people asked Jesus "What must we do, to be doing the works of God? Jesus answered them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." (John 6:28-29) People want to do everything but believe and yet this is what God wants you to do.