+DEV+ Beginning, End, and Middle

Date: February 5, 2013 12:19 AM
Topic: +DEV+  Beginning, End, and Middle

Beginning, End, and Middle

"...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."  (Philippians 1:6)
Scripture Focus: Galatians 3:1-9

The moment you were saved, God began a good work in you. What an amazing thought! Your salvation was all His work as He breathed His Spirit into your lifeless soul, opened your blind eyes, and gave you faith. In the end, all the credit will be His, for in the twinkling of an eye, He will take you to be with Him, and you will be perfect and sinless.

That explains the beginning and the end; but do you find yourself confused about the middle part? Somehow, we think He's left that portion up to us, and we grow discouraged when it doesn't seem to be going well. We still sin more than we want to, and we are easily dazzled by anything but Christ.

 Would it make a difference to you to know that your life is going exactly as God has planned, sin and all? God loves you far too much to leave the crucial work of sanctification up to you. If you're like me, you'll fail and run away every chance you get. Praise God that the middle belongs to Him as well, and He always gets His way with our sinful hearts.

Insight: "Believers are like earthen vessels, liable in themselves to be destroyed by a small blow; yet so strengthened by divine grace they cannot be harmed." (John Newton)




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