PIC:Waiting for the Master | Janice-Dameron.Blakesfavorite.place1-2021
– Source: Adapted Excerpt from the article How Prayer Works
We are still incomplete
Though “perfected forever and completely cleansed” (Hebrews 10:14), and thus born again into a forever state of being His child… we are still incomplete.
For as long as I walk this earth… I will be incomplete. I will at times fail to live at my highest level. I will sin. I may even get into a long slump.
My life ambition, since the day He saved my soul – has always been to be faithful to my Lord Jesus Christ. But, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” And I sin. That is the reality of my incompleteness.
I am perfect — no — I am almost perfect… for He is coming soon! I can hardly wait. Waiting for THAT is not easy!
Every believer is being transformed, still being worked-on by the Spirit of God who has taken-up residence in our body. This process goes on throughout our whole life on earth — a constant renewing process where we “are being sanctified”.
Our time on earth is a constant non-stop work of God in us. He is “bringing each believer to spiritual completion and maturity” (v.14).
Philippians 1:6
6 I am convinced and confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will [continue to] perfect and complete it until the day of Christ Jesus [the time of His return].
“Those who are being sanctified”
We are not perfect in action, yet. Later we’ll be sinless, yes, but now – not so much. “Positionally” we are legally perfect in His justice system, constantly ready —for standing before Him on That Day (verse 18).
Hallelujah! But we are incomplete here on earth until we are given a new body in heaven.
14 For by the one offering He has perfected forever and completely cleansed those who are being sanctified [bringing each believer to spiritual completion and maturity]. – Verse 14 of Hebrews 10:14-25
My incompleteness (Romans 7:15-26)
My constant experience of sin jumps-out in all kinds of ways, much too often. That is the reality of my incompleteness (Romans 7:15-26).
As they say, “Please be patient with me! God is not finished with me yet!” It’s hard to do — be patient with sinners around us!
Put your own incidents with these:
Incident 1
Jack says:
I was riding your tail ’cause you just cut me off!
You almost dented my car!
And I just flipped-you-off!
So now we’re both finding it hard to be patient!
Incident 2
Jane says:
You were going slower than a cow
on a narrow mountain road
blissfully unaware of my wanting to pass you
— now THAT pushes me into my incompleteness!
Thank God He does not reject me for my sinfulness. He continues to hone and burnish and shape me. He is not finished with me yet!
There are still sins which easily beset me (Hebrews 12:1). How about you? But it is always reassuring to remember that He is slowly but surely bringing me into more and more “spiritual completion and maturity” (v14), day by day, lesson by lesson.
Thank God I am not the sum of all my sins. Where would I be without the Lord, without forgiveness, without sheer mercy and grace? He brought me up and out of the miry clay
Hebrews 12:1 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of [a]witnesses [who by faith have testified to the truth of God’s absolute faithfulness], stripping off every unnecessary weight and the sin which so easily and cleverly entangles us, let us run with endurance and active persistence the race that is set before us.
1 Peter 5:verse 10
…the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.
– Source: Excerpt from the article How Prayer Works
FOR MORE:
How then should we live now… believing the Rapture is just around the corner?
The non-stop work of God inside you and me
My wild and crazy stallion heart
Being faithful, little by little
The sins around us and the sins we do
God forgives all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners, no exception
Waiting for it Excerpt: “We have to wait for it, but we are told that Jesus is coming soon to take us up to meet Him in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The Rapture is real, and it’s coming just around the corner. How are you living-out your faith these days?”
Being 100% given-over to Jesus
Legally Damned – Legally Forgiven
Pleasure and bad behaviors we love to fall for
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