Just be Perfect

The David Alliance

 

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Hebrews 12:1-3

1B and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

Matt. 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Philippians 3:12

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

 

Perfecter of our faith… what does that mean? It means Christ set before us an example of what perfect faith looks like and what we should strive for…

Someone recently said “ministry is saying yes to that which you are not qualified for -outside of your intimacy with God… it got me thinking. 

If you were looking at a graph and on the far left side was levels of intimacy bottom low end, top high end

and across the bottom right ran the purity scale

Your graph would climb in power as you grew in purity. This is what Hebrews is saying…

He is the perfecter of our faith… our faith is motivated and empowered by the purity and perfection in our walk. but what also do these verses say? Jesus is at the right hand of the father - and we know he is interceding for us and he is the example to us to not give up. It is still dependent on our pursuit of Jesus. 

Sometimes we think faith comes simply by hearing - and yes that is true, but we also see that there is a perfecting to our faith… so we have faith, but there is a perfecting to that faith.

A little faith with perfection is greater than a lot of faith with little perfection…Remember Jesus words, faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain.

What am I trying to say? I have great faith, I really do, but I know if there is sin in my life I am playing with dirty faith… and it is pretty pathetic. If I have very little faith but I know I am intimate with Jesus and my walk is pure… it is much more powerful. 

Would you rather light a bomb with a tiny bit of dry gun powder or a whole bucket of wet gun powder… make sense? 

So lets take where we are at and ask God to help perfect our faith… and lets see that little bit of faith move mountains. 

Maybe today we worry not so much about our faith but about our perfection… how are we doing on the purity scale? Would it be wise to pray for more of Gods perfection and purity than to simply pray for more faith.

Just a thought, until tomorrow - KSG