Showing posts with label perfection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label perfection. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Seven "Bottom Line" Thoughts



Every believer has the entire Christian life living in them right now.
Christ is all and is in all.
Colossians 3:11

The only way to grow the quality and the reach of our love is to grow in Christ as the center of our life.
"My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in in you..."
Galatians 4:19          

There is a difference between my soul and my spirit. My spirit is sealed and secure in eternal  connection to Jesus. My soul is imperfect and in the process of learning to love again.
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

There is nothing the presence of Christ in me cannot cure.
John 7:37-38
On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

Jesus is my life, therefore, my life is perfect.  The sum of my experience in this world is far from perfect, therefore, my experience in this world is not my life.  
Philippians 1:21
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will[a] have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Whatever gets my attention gets me.
Matthew 6:22-23
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Underestimating Jesus leads me to my greatest losses.
John 15:5

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

Bud McCord
Abide International

Friday, May 13, 2016

The Final Mirror


But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.  II Cor. 3:18

Good mirrors do not lie.

People who want to know the truth about themselves use mirrors that are as good as possible.

Godly, honest people are good mirrors. 

A friend who will reveal your weaknesses to you in private is a good mirror.

The Scriptures honestly read and free of human distortions is a perfect mirror.

The best mirror of all is Jesus. God has chosen Jesus as His perfect mirror that will judge humanity. Eventually every human being will look into Jesus and see their final truth.

Jesus will be the final judge of what human perfection is and He is the only person to whom we can look to become what we must become.  Only Jesus can change us into the kind of human beings God has intended for us to be from the beginning.  Jesus is the final mirror.
People who want honesty about their true state surround themselves with godly people, good friends and the Scriptures properly taught. All of these wonderful mirrors help us because in the end they all say “Look to Jesus.  He is the final mirror.”

Bud McCord
Abide International