Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matt 5:48).
What a marvelous truth! And yet how unattainable it seems! How ever are we expected to arrive at such a perfect and complete stature?
After all, this has been the plan of salvation from the dawn of time: To Abraham, God said, "walk before me, and be thou perfect..." (Gen 17:1). So surely God has a vehicle to bring this plan to pass, right? Yes.
Concerning Jesus, Scripture says, "In him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him" (Col 2:9-10). Friend, these two verses are directly related..
All the attributes of Christ Jesus, as God and man, are at our disposal. All the fullness of the Godhead, whatever that great term may comprehend, is ours to make us complete. Can we believe that God has done all that can be done to endow us with "completion" and "maturity"? How else could He justly ask us to "go on unto perfection" (Heb 6:1)? He has made even his divine power and Godhead as tools to our salvation. His omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability and infallibility, are all combined for our defence. Therefore, let us arise, and behold the Lord Jesus yoking the whole of his divine Godhead to "the chariot of our salvation"!
As another has said, "How vast His grace, how firm His faithfulness, how unswerving His immutability, How infinite his power, How limitless his knowledge!" And how wonderful that such attributes are also to be for our completion! All these qualities are, by the Lord Jesus, made the pillars of the temple of salvation; the foundation; and all are covenanted to us as our eternal inheritance.
These wondrous qualities displayed by our precious Lord not only conduct volumes toward His personal greatness, they each shall also be employed for us: "His wisdom is our direction, His knowledge our instruction, His power our protection, His justice our surety, His love our comfort, His mercy our solace, and His immutability our trust". The mount of God has been readily opened, and is now bidding us come and dig, and discover its glories! ALL are to be ours!
What precious asurance! What wonderful thoughts to behold!
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