Working vs. Works/ The Most for The Least

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God– not by works, so that no one can boast."

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
Ephesians 2:8-10

We can't work our way into Heaven; the Scriptures tell us this.
Our salvation comes by grace through faith alone, and no amount of toil will get us into that Heavenly residence. Jesus has purchased mansions for us with His own precious blood.
There are some who feel the "price of admission" is their work, but it is the finished works of Jesus alone that has bought and wrought our redemption.
But there is work to do, that has nothing to do with paying back Jesus for what He has so freely given us! The fields are white with a bountiful harvest.
Jesus said that He "came to do the will of His Father who sent him" (John 4:34), and since we are to imitate Jesus, we, too, are called to do these good works, not leaving these tasks for others to do. I'm not just talking about serving at your church here.
We are God's workmanship, and the Lord even puts angelic beings in our paths, perhaps to check our responses. The sickly, the orphaned, the poor, those enslaved, the homeless, those who have fallen through the cracks, the discards of society, the least, ...do you really know the true identity of the vagrant at that intersection? The old woman stranded by the side of the road with a flat tire? The young down-on-their-luck family living out of their old van asking for enough money to buy some food...?
On that day when we transition to eternity, when we no longer see dimly in that foggy mirror, but behold our Father/King/Bridegroom face to face, and know fully, we will see those encounters and rejoice together.
Until then beloved, let's do the work while there is daylight.