We Will Become Perfect

We Will Become Perfect

Scripture:
Philippians 1:6 (NIV)

…being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV)

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Devotional:

People tend to strive for perfection.  Unfortunately we can never attain true perfection.  The good news is that God is perfect and all He does is perfect.  When we accept Christ as our savior He begins His work in us.  His perfection will be in us.  We will be perfected when Christ returns.  Until then we continuously grow toward that perfection. 

Because of sin, past, present, and future, we will not be complete until “the day of Christ Jesus.”  Satan will try to confuse us and mislead us.  Satan would have us believe that because we can never be good enough we will not reach perfection.  He would have us believe it is our work or goodness that gives us grace.  The Bible is very clear that it is not by our hands that we are saved.  Therefore it cannot be by our hands that we are brought into perfection.  It is through Christ that we are saved and it is through Christ that we our perfection will be complete.  While we live in a fallen world we are susceptible to sins, hardships, and other problems of the world.  All we can do is strive to be Christ-like.  Our goal is to become as much like Christ as we can possibly be.  We need to accept the fact that we will fail.  The good news is that despite our failure God is perfect and He will continue to be with us.  Despite our failures we are given mercy and grace.  We do not deserve it.  It is a free gift.  Because we accept that gift we will become perfect.