Nov. 1
PERFECTION AND PRESERVATION
"Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it" I Thess.
5:24
What will He do? He will sanctify us wholly. See the previous
verse. He will carry on the work of purification till we are perfect
in every part. He will preserve our "whole spirit, and soul, and body,
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." He will not allow
us to fall from grace, nor come under the dominion of sin. What great
favors are these! Well may we adore the giver of such unspeakable
gifts.
Who will do this? The Lord who has called us out of darkness into
His marvelous light, out of death in sin into eternal life in Christ
Jesus. Only He can do this: such perfection and preservation can only
come from the God of all grace.
Why will He do it? Because He is "faithful" -- faithful to His own
promise which is pledged to save the believer; faithful to His Son,
whose reward it is that His people shall be presented to Him
faultless; faithful to the work which He has commenced in us by our
effectual calling. It is not their own faithfulness, but the Lord's
own faithfulness, on which the saints rely.
Come, my soul, here is a grand feast to begin a dull month with.
There may be fogs without, but there should be sunshine within.