We're Picking up where we left off on Page 187, "What Honors God Is Beautiful".
Assignment:
- Read / review Chapter 10, God's Perfection, pp177-196.
- Read / review the Study Guide, Section 11 on Chapter 10, God's Perfection, pp93-103.
- Challenge below
Who can be perfect? Who can be complete?
If we can be perfect (I just gave the answer), then how do we do that?
Is being perfect or complete tied to being filled with all the fullness of God (as in Eph 3:19)?
Consider that Paul writes that "...Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith."
All through Ephesians, Paul tells us, and all through the Attributes book, A. W. Tozer has indicated, how God does that - by the Lord putting His character and nature into us through His grace.
Things like Psalm 15:2-5: These characteristics DO NOT come from us, nor is there any formula we can prepare that would make them rise up in us.
They only come by Him faithfully imputing Himself into our inner man (Eph 3:16) when we are willing to obey and surrender ourselves to Him.
Some translations have a title for Psalm 15: "The Character of Those Who May Dwell With The LORD".
Imagine it: He gives us His character in our inner man, by making us His workmanship; and then He qualifies us, by His grace, to enter into His tabernacle and into His holy hill; then he parades us around as if pure, holy, perfect, and complete, in Christ; and all the while, He's also living within us continuing to impart of the riches of His grace and His glory, which strengthen with might through His Spirit in the inner man (Eph 2:7, 3:16)!
With such a sad and devastatingly emotional past week with the loss of a brother, friend, pastor, and pillar in our lives, lets press on and continue to run until our race has ended.
Let's bow our knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and ask Him to fill us with all the fulness of God today.
To God be the glory. Amen