Let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect
and complete, lacking nothing. —James 1:4
{CHAMBERS} “Many
of us appear to be all right in general, but there are still some areas in
which we are careless and lazy; it is not a matter of sin, but the remnants of
our carnal life that tend to make us careless. Carelessness is an insult to the
Holy Spirit. We should have no carelessness about us either in the way we
worship God, or even in the way we eat and drink. Not only must our
relationship to God be right, but the outward expression of that relationship
must also be right. Ultimately, God will allow nothing to escape; every detail
of our lives is under His scrutiny. God will bring us back in countless ways to
the same point over and over again. And He never tires of bringing us back to
that one point until we learn the lesson, because His purpose is to produce the
finished product. It may be a problem arising from our impulsive nature, but
again and again, with the most persistent patience, God has brought us back to
that one particular point. Or the problem may be our idle and wandering
thinking, or our independent nature and self-interest. Through this process,
God is trying to impress upon us the one thing that is not entirely right in
our lives.”
{ELGIN} You must never be satisfied with your present
spiritual condition. The danger is that
we will accommodate something in our lives that we declare as “good enough”
when God has, in fact called us to a life of holiness. (1
Peter 1:16) Paul spends most of his
time encouraging saints to cast off the old life and its ways and embrace the
new life. Yet, each of us has something
or perhaps more than one thing that we accommodate in our lives. We either want to cling to it or can’t get
rid of it, no matter how hard we try. Our
sanctification is based upon the strength of our faith and the level of our
submission to the Spirit, not to our personal effort at being holy. We are saved and sanctified by grace through
faith and not works (Ephesians 2:8,9) So long as we walk this Earth, we will
struggle with our flesh. Whether we have
victory over our flesh is totally dependent upon our submission to the Spirit.
(Galatians 5:16). The test as to whether or not what you do or
think is right is this … does it glorify God?
You know the truth .. the question is … are you willing to accept the truth
or do you prefer to continue in your sin.
My encouragement you to is to continue to press on in your faith. Never be satisfied.
Philippians 3:13-16
“Brothers [and Sisters], I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one
thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies
ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything
you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to
what we have attained."
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