May your whole spirit, soul,
and body be preserved blameless… —1 Thessalonians 5:23
“Do we believe that God can
fortify and protect our thought processes far beyond where we can go? “…the
blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). If this
verse means cleansing only on our conscious level, may God have mercy on us.
The man who has been dulled by sin will say that he is not even conscious of
it. But the cleansing from sin we experience will reach to the heights and
depths of our spirit if we will “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1
John 1:7). The same Spirit that fed the life of Jesus Christ will feed the life
of our spirit. It is only when we are protected by God with the miraculous
sacredness of the Holy Spirit that our spirit, soul, and body can be preserved
in pure uprightness until the coming of Jesus-no longer condemned in God’s
sight.” CHAMBERS
As I write these devotions, I
see a thread that runs through them .. It is the same thread that runs through
the Bible. God has called us to a life
of faith and holiness. We cannot achieve
that life on our own. And even when we
are born again, even though we are “awakened” to the reality of spiritual Truth,
we continue to struggle with living a life of faith and holiness. We make excuses for our failings, unfortunately often resolving
ourselves to some lower level of faith and holiness that God never
intended as some sort of self-defined compromise. When you talk to other
Christians, even those that you might consider “more spiritual than most”, you
should never think that they are immune to that struggle. None of us are like Jesus, but all of us will
be. So should we be content with our not
being like Him yet? God forbid. We are on a spiritual journey. We must keep our eyes fixed on Him, and press
on. So my friend, let me encourage you
to press on in your faith with confidence that “He who began a good work in
your will be faithful to complete it.” (1
Philippians 1:6) “I know I'm not what I could be ..I'm not who I want
to be, but I know I'm not who I used to be.” (Author unknown) ELGIN
(Philippians 3:13-14) “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider
myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is
behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize
for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless
You)
Charley Elgin
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