Good Morning All!!
1 Corinthians
13:10; “but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.”
Incomplete. The word tends to conjure up some many
thoughts and most of those thoughts are negative. A quarterback in football does not want the
pass to fall incomplete. A student
working in class struggles when his assignment is incomplete. It is not success nor is it failure; what is it
exactly, it is in some form of educational limbo. It is not done; it is not finished; it is in
some form of suspension. Incomplete is
never a positive. A person who feels his
job leaves him incomplete or the relationship leaves him incomplete or just the
events of his life leaves him incomplete; this is not a happy, content
man. The worst part about feeling
incomplete is that you have nothing inside of you. You are empty, void of anything of matter,
listless and without direction or purpose.
This is a very good description
of our life in sin. When Adam and Eve
walked with God in the cool of the morning in the Garden of Eden, everything
was perfect; everything was complete.
That really is the biblical definition of perfect: it means to be
complete. Perfection is more about
wholeness or being complete than it is about being without blemish. But when sin came into the world, it pulled
man away from God. Sin put a hole in man
and made him incomplete. Sin leaves you
empty and it leaves you without a true purpose.
We see this in this sinful world.
A man without purpose is a man without contentment because contentment
is achieved when your purpose is followed.
We see this in the millionaire who needs to be a multi-millionaire who
needs to be a billionaire and so on. Why
isn’t it ever enough? They have no
purpose and seeking after money is not filling the hole.
That is what sin does;
it removes our purpose and leaves us empty and without hope. This is part of what Jesus was saying when he
died on the cross. He said, “it is
finished.” The Greek word means to
discharge as in paying a debt but it also means to accomplish or to fill
up. By His death on the cross, Jesus
paid or discharged our debt for sin. By
paying the debt of sin, Jesus filled the hole that sin left. This filling is a process that will last
until the perfect comes and the partial passes away.
We have a part, a taste
of what perfection will be like. We
experience it when we are content in God’s grace and we seek our purpose in His
will. We still have bouts of struggles with
sin but God’s mercy keeps bringing us back and filling in the hole. This will occur over and over until He
completes the perfection; either when He comes to us in his glory or when He
brings us home to himself. We will be
perfect; we will be whole again. We will
know His total and complete love and peace.
Father, fill me with your love. Keep me from being empty and lost in this
broken world. Restore me to the complete
person that you designed me to be. Drive
away sin and renew within in the whole spirit and being. In the precious name of Jesus we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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