Daily Wisdom

 ‘... made perfect.’ Heb 12:23

Consider the great contrast between Israel’s terrified approach to God at Mt. Sinai and their joyful approach at Mt. Zion! What a difference Jesus made! Showing us there are two kinds of perfection which the Christian needs-the perfection of justification in the person of Jesus, and the perfection of sanctification wrought in him by the Holy Spirit. Our Justification as been made perfect in Jesus and the cross, our Sanctification is on-going through the Holy Spirit. At present, corruption yet remains even in us, the regenerate-experience soon teaches us this. 

But I rejoice to know that the day is coming when God shall finish the work which he has begun; and He shall seal our soul, not only perfect in Christ, but perfect through the Holy Spirit, without spot or blemish, completed for our Glorification. Oh, how we should extol Jesus who perfected our Justification, and the Holy Spirit in preparing us to stand fit before our Lord to receive our finished work, perfected for Heaven. Yet let not the hope of perfection hereafter make us content with imperfection now. If it does this, our hope cannot be genuine; for a good hope is a purifying thing, even now.

The Christian life calls us to a walk of progression, not perfection. Perfection isn’t obtainable, but if we chase it, we’ll catch excellence along the way… HSAY

Daily Wisdom

1Pt 2:2 “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” 

Fall is upon us and another change of the season and with it another year of growing older, but the question is are we growing up? Are we growing closer to God, are we growing in our Christ-likeness?  While life continually evolves many are stagnant in their salvation and sanctification. We visually change our appearance like the seasons, by choice or nature, but our spirit remains stuck in spiritual adolescence and immaturity. We naturally grow in our physical diet, but to grow in our spiritual diet requires an appetite for the God’s Word!

Be careful, it’s easy to grow up in church and still not grow up in Christ… HSAY