What Kind of Works Have we been Saved to do?

If you have read my post about facing a giant, you will understand about my search for the reason. The fruit of the Spirit I have just finished studying is Goodness. I wanted to write what the study says about it.
" We've been saved to do Good works. We have not only been called to the attitude of disposition of kindness, but also to energize that character into acts of good or acts of beneficence. We are here to do some good-kingdom good on carnal ground! We've been saved to fulfill an assignment God issued in advance."
In Romans 8:29,30 & Eph. 1:5,11 it says we are predestined! The things God wants us to do have already been chosen! We just have to obey! If we miss our ministry, we miss our entire purpose in remaining here.
In Matthew 25:15 and I Cor. 12:7-11 the parable of the talents is compared with the different gifts people are given. We receive gifts not based on our abilities, but abilities based on the common good. Our gifts are given so we can seek to benefit others and bring good to them. And so Christ will be glorified!
I do not claim to know all the answers. I am just writing what God has been placing on my heart. I look back to the events on Saturday and I am wondering why. Was I looking for someone to notice my supposed talents, or was I looking to bring good to someone else with this ability God has given me? I really just need to take the focus off of myself and look to how God can use me for the ministry he has already laid out for me. Oh to always have a heart of obedience. I guess if we did, we would never learn anything! I pray I can seek to be obedient and have the heart to listen to what God wants to teach me and use me for!
I am also beginning to realize that the ministry He has for me, will not always be easy! I might have to sacrifice and suffer for His perfect will to be realized. That is hard to take because sometimes I think that it should be so easy, especially if God wants me to do it! I might have to take many critical comments, I might have to shed a few tears, I might have to sacrifice time with my family. I hope I will have the heart to do it! I pray I can be open to what God has for me!