Already Perfect!

                                    Already Perfect!

"For by one sacrifice, He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy" (Hebrews 10:14).

This is becoming my favorite verse right now: Amazing truth to teach us all we need to know to navigate our lives in these chaotic times.

First, a reminder of what happened at the cross. His sacrifice, to pay the debt of our sins, made us perfect in the eyes of God. Because God put our guilt on Christ, we are guilt-free!

It's called "The Great Exchange." He took our filthy sinful life with its garbage bag and exchanged it for a treasure chest full of His priceless righteousness. 'He has clothed us in garments of salvation and arrayed us in His robes of perfect righteousness' (Isaiah 61:10).

For now? More -- FOREVER!

So when God looks at us He sees His perfect Son!

It can't get better than that!

So our position is perfect in God's eyes.

Second, do we act perfectly? No, but with His Spirit in us we are being made holy.

'And we all, as we gaze on Jesus, are being transformed into His image with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Spirit.' (2 Corinthians 3:18)

(As we used to say, 'Please be patient with me, God is not finished with me yet!)

Remember young King Josiah (2 Kings 23)? He inherited the throne at age 8. He had a crown, trumpets as he entered a room, everyone bowed and called him 'King'. He was the official King. But he had to grow into the position...he didn't actually function as King till he became an adult.

That's like us -- God has declared us perfect, in position,  because of what Christ did, but we have to grow a lot more to fill that position!

And that's why I love this verse so much! 

God is not finished with me yet!