At the end of that wonderful chapter 5 of Matthew our Saviour leaves these challenging words,'Be ye therefore perfect,even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect'.Many years ago a friend of mine said,that this was an exhortation,and it something we are to aim at,it must,I stress,it must be taken very serious.Because of who spoke those words, Jesus,yes our Lord,He is not mocking us, He is deadly serious. In 1 Corinthians15 v 31,the apostle Paul declares,'I die daily',this is the great apostle talking,it means everyday of our Christian lives,we die to self. Yes I'm sure I'm a better person that I once was,I have come a long way in following Jesus,yet sometime I feel I have not come very far ,there is still so much that needs to change.Michelangelo was asked what he could see in a block of marble?,he answered,'I see an angel'.It did become an angel,but it did not happen over night.Someone has said ,'deliverance from sin is begun at conversion,but is only completed in glorification'.In 1 John 3 v2 we read of our future state ,'It doth not appear what we shall be;but we know when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall seen Him as He is,That is what God is doing,but in v 3,we read what we have to do,' And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure'.
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