Troy a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Perfect in Christ Jesus".-------Colossians 1:28
DO you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every
day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps
"imperfection"; every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters
"imperfection." You have too frequently had a view of your own heart to dream
for a moment of any perfection in yourself. But amidst this sad consciousness of
imperfection, here is comfort for you—you are "perfect in Christ Jesus." In
God's sight, you are "complete in Him;" even now you are "accepted in the
Beloved." But there is a second perfection, yet to be realized, which is sure to
all the seed. Is it not delightful to look forward to the time when every stain
of sin shall be removed from the believer, and he shall be presented faultless
before the throne, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing? The Church of
Christ then will be so pure, that not even the eye of Omniscience will see a
spot or blemish in her; so holy and so glorious, that Hart did not go beyond the
truth when he said—
"With my Saviour's garments on,
Holy as the Holy One."
Then shall we know, and taste, and feel the happiness of this vast but short
sentence, "Complete in Christ." Not till then shall we fully comprehend the
heights and depths of the salvation of Jesus. Does not thy heart leap for joy at
the thought of it? Black as thou art, thou shalt be white one day; filthy as
thou art, thou shalt be clean. Oh, it is a marvellous salvation this! Christ
takes a worm and transforms it into an angel; Christ takes a black and deformed
thing and makes it clean and matchless in His glory, peerless in His beauty, and
fit to be the companion of seraphs. O my soul, stand and admire this blessed
truth of perfection in Christ.
C H Spurgeon
Amen
Troy
"Perfect in Christ Jesus".-------Colossians 1:28
DO you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you? Does not every
day teach you that? Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps
"imperfection"; every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters
"imperfection." You have too frequently had a view of your own heart to dream
for a moment of any perfection in yourself. But amidst this sad consciousness of
imperfection, here is comfort for you—you are "perfect in Christ Jesus." In
God's sight, you are "complete in Him;" even now you are "accepted in the
Beloved." But there is a second perfection, yet to be realized, which is sure to
all the seed. Is it not delightful to look forward to the time when every stain
of sin shall be removed from the believer, and he shall be presented faultless
before the throne, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing? The Church of
Christ then will be so pure, that not even the eye of Omniscience will see a
spot or blemish in her; so holy and so glorious, that Hart did not go beyond the
truth when he said—
"With my Saviour's garments on,
Holy as the Holy One."
Then shall we know, and taste, and feel the happiness of this vast but short
sentence, "Complete in Christ." Not till then shall we fully comprehend the
heights and depths of the salvation of Jesus. Does not thy heart leap for joy at
the thought of it? Black as thou art, thou shalt be white one day; filthy as
thou art, thou shalt be clean. Oh, it is a marvellous salvation this! Christ
takes a worm and transforms it into an angel; Christ takes a black and deformed
thing and makes it clean and matchless in His glory, peerless in His beauty, and
fit to be the companion of seraphs. O my soul, stand and admire this blessed
truth of perfection in Christ.
C H Spurgeon
Amen
Troy
