Thoughts for another day

December 14, 2011

Today's verse: Philip. 1:6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

When we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, many things happen –spiritual, physical and emotional.  Here I'll deal with the spiritual aspect of our association with Christ whereby we come into the realm of the Holy Spirit who teaches us all wisdom of the Kingdom of our Father.

As you know, one of the key ingredients accompanying us in our walk with the Lord from the time we encounter Him and accept Him as Lord and Savior is holiness; which is also the most difficult of traits for a man to be close to, leave alone possess. We know only one Man was perfect; only one Man was completely holy and that Man is Jesus.  No other man has ever been without sin, ever, and so, it all the more inspires us to be holy for we walk in the footsteps of our Master moving to be pure in His sight; yet we realize even without our intending it, we fall, sinning.  Sometimes, we're so depressed by this our weak nature that we find our spirits lilting and being gripped by guilt, we can't get into a genial communion with our God.  The reason is we feel we ourselves have to try to be holy before Him.  We forget an important aspect of our relationship with God, which is – He who has begun a good work in us will accomplish it until the day of Jesus Christ.  Which means, He who has spurred us into holiness, will accomplish it!

Yes, it is He who will make us holy and help us remain clean before Him.  Try however, much we may, we cannot be clean the way God intends us to be.  But He can and will make us clean when we surrender completely to Him.  We may yet commit sin, like let's say, doubt His providence in the face of acute want, but still, being committed to His ways, we're clean, particularly because of the blood of Jesus on our fore-heads which cries that we're holy before our Father.  So today, in our efforts to be holy, let's stop relying on selves, rather let's take hold of the promise in our Scripture above and rejoice for our intense desire to be holy will be fulfilled by Him.  Amen.