Monday, July 30, 2018

The Alpha of Being Established


UV 3022/10000 The Alpha of Being Established
To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints
I Thessalonians 3 v 13

In our covenant with the Lord, He is obviously the stronger One. He takes the responsibility once we commit our hearts and lives to Him to establish us in our faith, to stabilise our lives, to establish our character in accordance with His own DNA or divine nature. The enemy wants to destabilise and weaken us but the Lord desires to establish us so that we take a firm grip on the Eternal Rock of Christ. He is the Alpha, the good root, the cornerstone, the keystone on which the strength of our lives depend. To this end of establishing us, He sends people and angels to minister or serve us, to comfort us, to teach us, to help us, to encourage us, to bless us.

The divine nature of Jesus is that He is blameless or blemishless. We too are called to live blemishless lives in this imperfect and sin-prone world. It is an impossible challenge but it is possible when we live by faith and grace and not by sight and not relying on our own limited knowledge, ability and senses. We as believers have the advantage of knowing our beginning and our end but remain more or less clueless about what happens in between. But we trust the Lord for each day and each moment of our lives. He leads us to green pastures as well as to valleys and mountains.

The Lord uses His word to heal our fickle hearts and thereby, establish us. He uses His word to teach our minds, our intellects, emotions and will to be stable and able. The eternal perspective the living word gives us makes us realize that the fluctuations in our earthly fortunes do not affect our eternal destiny. By focussing on the Author and Finisher of our Faith, Jesus, we add to our faith, righteousness or integrity of character, goodness of heart, patience or stability of mind, discipline of habit, humility of attitude, gentleness of manners. Salvation is only the first step in our spiritual journey. Living up to the standards of salvation in Christ or sanctification and edification are the remaining steps that takes us to the finishing line, the victory stand. But Jesus undertakes to walk us the entire way with us to establish us, to complete us.

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