Securing Us...His Intent!

"For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus" (Philippians 1:6)

One more time to the well, beloved, as we drink deeply from a third and final installment in our study of this glorious verse of Scripture! We have already discovered together that saving us was God's idea and also that sanctifying us was His inspiration. But what we will learn now will wrap up this verse into a blessed triad of God's promises to us as believers.

Pay very close attention in this verse of Scripture to the qualifying phrase "until the day of Christ Jesus." Those three wonderful words - "until the day" - speak directly to the issue of our security in the hand of the Master Artist who Himself began a glorious work of grace in us and who has ever since been applying great brushstrokes of grace upon the canvas of our lives. What this term tells us, beloved, is that God will never "begin" a work in us and then go off and leave it unfinished as He attends to something or someone else. Not at all! God as Master Artist will not be satisfied until each canvas of human life stands complete in His presence for Him to enjoy for all eternity.

Because God will continue His great work in our personal lives "until the day of Christ Jesus," you and I are eternally secure in His love. Do you recall what the Spirit of God inspired the Apostle Paul to write to the saints in Rome concerning this very subject?

"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, or any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39)

Thus, God is going to keep right on shaping and molding our lives until that very moment when Jesus returns and ushers us into the Father's presence. His work of saving and sanctifying and securing us will go on until we are with Him in glory. No wonder, then, that we will praise Him throughout eternity!

Ron