Blameless Until Jesus Comes Again

November 7, 2016

Blameless Until Jesus Comes Again

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Remember when we learned in school about the difference between ‘may’ and ‘can’? The word “can” speaks to our ability to do something and the word “may” speaks to our permission to undertake something. In this sense, may does not carry the weight Paul assigns to it in the passage quoted above. In this Biblical sense, may is affirmation of that which God has done, God is doing, and that which God will most certainly do. There is no wiggle room here, God is moving. Here is how Paul described it in his letter to the Philippians, “For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him” (Philippians 2:13).

So this is what Paul is saying to you and to me: the God of peace has made you holy in every way, and the God of peace will keep your whole spirit and soul blameless until Jesus comes again in final victory!

God has made you holy and God will keep you holy!  Please let this powerful affirmation sink deep into your spirit. Today, this very instant, you have right-standing before God the Father Almighty because God has made you holy and God will keep you holy! This is not your doing. This is the work of Jesus who died for you and rose again.

How different might your life be today if you kept this truth ever present in your mind: God has made me holy and God will keep me holy! Please spend a few minutes allowing your mind to absorb this precious truth: God has made me holy and God will keep me holy!  Next, spend a few minutes going over your calendar for today. Whom will you see? What activities do you have scheduled?  Whom might you encounter, or correspond with today? How might the knowledge that God has made you holy and that God will keep you holy influence your day?

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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