Christ Leads The Way

“For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.” (Hebrews 10:14)

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How does it feel to get everything right and be perfect? Oh, you don’t know? Neither do I. It’s because none of us are perfect. As the Bible puts it, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). It doesn’t say “all have fallen” but “all fall”. That means we all mess up. We all make mistakes. And none of us are perfect.

All of us struggle with our own temptations and challenges. Yours may be different than mine or the next person’s. But none of us are exempt from being imperfect. There’s only one perfect being, and that’s the Lord God.

Sometimes people misconstrue what Christianity is. Being a follower of Christ does not mean I’ll do and get everything right all of the time. It also doesn’t mean that just because I sin or another brother or sister does that the whole body of Christ isn’t holding true to their walk with God.

It’s easy to lump everyone into a category when one person does wrong. It’s almost as if some people are just waiting and watching in the shadows eagerly hoping for someone to sin to justify why they don’t believe or choose to follow Christ. But as mentioned in my last post, Jesus said, “You follow Me“. We’re not to worry about what everyone else is doing or not doing when it comes to our standing with God. Each of us must give an account for ourselves before the Lord.

Even the apostle Peter struggled with doing the right thing at times. Recall that the apostle Paul “withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed” when he mistreated the Gentile Christians (Galatians 2:11). The measure of a person is not in how many times they fall, but how many times they get back up again. “For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity” (Proverbs 24:16).

I don’t know about you, but I’m so thankful that even though the falling may be more than we’d like, the cleansing by Christ’s blood is continual. According to 1 John 1:7, “if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

So, then, does that mean we keep willfully sinning. No! (Romans 6:1-2). We just keep striving for sanctification, and in our daily efforts to be more like Christ, His sacrifice perfects us forever (Hebrews 10:14). What a wonderful thought!

“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.” Philippians 3:12

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